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With deep and sincere apologies to Sir Robbie "Help! It" Burns.
Partial Glossary
Puddin: a dish made of offal, such as haggis, also a mythical creature
Beinn: mountain
Caoineadh: cry, as in a funeral lament or battle cry
Ken: perception, understanding
Heich: lofty
Stowe: stuff
Cag: keg (stomach)
Frowe: large, meaty woman
Hame: home
Breith: breath, sentiment, capacity to think and feel
Quick: soft flesh
Ilk: each
Stap: step
Stowen: stolen
Sloomin: sleeping fitfully
Fluir: floor
Saft: soft
Saul: soul
Smuirt: smothered, suffocated
Dirk: knife
Spate: flood
Yaupish: eager, hungry
Yampish: greedy
Whate: cut with a knife
Sappie: juicy, succulent, plump, tender
Shuckt: removed from its shell
Ablach: mangled body, contemptible person
Disnae: doesn't
Thristles: thistles
Sall: shall
Sloch: skin (removed from the body)
Boonties: bounties
Painch: stomach
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Posted by Bobrocks 4 years ago Report
Scotland?
Posted by EmilyNidhoggr 4 years ago Report
Aye.
Posted by Bright 4 years ago Report
Like a scottish ogre.
I like it.
Posted by alockwood1 2 years ago Report
Funny.
Posted by Skulker 2 years ago Report
‘Bowels’ and ‘Jewels’ don’t rhyme. Their emphasized syllables are completely different. Sorry but if I didn’t comment I’d go crazy.
Posted by EmilyNidhoggr 2 years ago Report
No, but Bouels and Jewels do.
As do daur, bow'r and fluir (dare, bower and floor), more or less.
Scots is a wild language.