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A lot of the Scots words do indeed originate from the Dutch language. Also from Norway etc ( Broon Coo (Norwegian) for example means ......... Brown Cow

philiph wrote:7 out of 10 and Yorkshire is my first language. There's some Ulster-Scots in these parts and so picked up some. But then, who knows what this is (clue: job title): Eeksie Peeksie Hei Headyin?

Would these be counting words as used by a shepherd?

Something from everybody I suppose. Some also from France eg ashet, a serving plate. Also I'd guess the origin of faucet, a tap, is French as well.

Bits of French influenced Latin in Gaelic too, eg eaglais for church.

puddock wrote:A lot of the Scots words do indeed originate from the Dutch language. Also from Norway etc ( Broon Coo (Norwegian) for example means ......... Brown Cow

Friends of ours spent a few years in France, which had the great advantage that both kids became fluent French speakers. One day in class the teacher asked the younger one, then about 8, to sing a song from Scotland. She duly obliged with:

The big broon coo went * against the wa,
* against the wa,
* against the wa.
The big broon coo went * against the wa,
And ye couldna see the wa fur *, *, *!


This became a class favourite because it works in French too:

La grande veche brun...

(*, I should perhaps explain, is a sound effect rather than a word...)

Asm I suppose you would expect, there are plenty of Danish words that seem to have contributed to the Scots language - and English - e.g. Parkering
Means parking

altogether different from the Welsh of course, Parcio

aye, well........

Here's a test for you all to do on the Scots language. I got 9/10.

http://www.scotland.org/celebrate-scotl ... uage-quiz/

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This has got to be a whole different class of LakeSailoring, where the original post is repeated three pages into the thread by someone else

Opps sorry. That's what happens when you only read the last page!

sam wrote:I got 9/10.

http://www.scotland.org/celebrate-scotl ... uage-quiz/

Very good. I got;

• You scored
  10 oot o’ 10
  
  How you rate:
  1–3 In the name of the wee man! Ye dunderheid!
  4–7 Aye, nae bad!
  8–10 That wis braw! Ye ken yer neaps frae yer tatties!

But then, I had the advantage of being born in Glasgow and partly brought up in Ayrshire.

You scored

9 oot o’ 10


How you rate:

1–3 In the name of the wee man! Ye dunderheid!
4–7 Aye, nae bad!
8–10 That wis braw! Ye ken yer neaps frae yer tatties!

I would beg to suggest that Mingin is hardly a traditional scottish word
- that wisnae the wan ah got wrang, bye the way

claymore wrote:You scored

och aye ... nae doobt ... !

i got jalouse right which is better than most ....

yer tub's landed at cochin .. youse got a bonus placing fer some reason

Well I got 8 right which aint bad for an Irish man, "aye all right Pete".
My wife got 8 right too, she is a Scots, but her 2 wrang yens were different from my 2.
Just goes to show.

10 for me!