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  • TopbirdTopbird Posts: 8,354

    Beautiful isn't it Lantana?

    Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Morning all!

    Your job sounds fab, Topbird!  It's fascinating finding the differences & similarities in languages - we liked the fact that the Swedish for "young children" (seen on a bus sign) looked like "small bairns".  (We lived in Geordieland at the time!)

    Finnish is a bit of a b***** though, doesn't seem to be related to any other language (except perhaps Hungarian).  Easy to pronounce - useful cos I sing in it - because it's phonetic, but looking at the words doesn't give much of a clue as to the meaning.

    Have a lovely day off, Wonky!

    Better go & do something useful.  Too cold to plant out courgettes - think I'm going to have to tackle the cat hair under the spare bed...  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410

    I love the fact that "frying pan" comes up in a lot of 16C willsimage

  • Bushman2Bushman2 Posts: 548

    My favourite saying is from Aberdeen " It's a sair fecht for a pikle scran" image

  • Bushman2Bushman2 Posts: 548

    Muddle-up, i was in Lhanbryde near Elgin for a wedding. We were in a pub all kilted up ready to go having a wee drinky before going when an old boy said we were a fine looking bunch o Loons image The barman explained that loons was local for lads/men. It was an interesting wedding image

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Bushman, life's a sair fecht when you're scunnered image

    SW Scotland
  • Bushman2Bushman2 Posts: 548

    Muddle -up i'm braw lassie braw. Joyce as long as yer lums reekin ye hae nae worries. Much more i'll be full on Harry Lauder image

  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    A pickle is a small amount but not sure re scran. . . I've heard it used referring to food but it may mean money. Bushman will enlighten us.

    SW Scotland
  • Bushman2Bushman2 Posts: 548

    Joyce it means it's a sore fight for a small amount of food. In days gone by some farm workers were paid in lodgings and food and if they were lucky ale or whisky. They moved from farm to farm doing sheep sheering or harvesting.

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    I don't know which part of the North "scran" originated in - I've heard it in the NE and also here on the Yorkshire/Lancashire border.

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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