What's your favourite coloquial expression?

[Glasgow]

'away an raffle yer doughnuts'

[flossy]

"Hadaway and tiddle"- I'll let you guess the meaning of that one.

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[Pinky but Perky]

as an aberdonian i feel that the north east of scotland has cornered the market on inserting words that has nothing to do with the sentence at all...it makes me affa proud!

ooh! another distinguishing feature of the aberdonian language is "fit"

[s]flossy wrote on 17:32, 9th Mar 2005:
When I worked in Aberdeen for the summer I didn't understand the whole adding "ken" to the end of sentences and thought that it was just a common name in Aberdeen...

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the knack is finding a grape that actually looks edible....damn you Tesco!

[ClaireyMoo]

Quoting Clonion from 17:30, 9th Mar 2005
Ooooh, a nice Dundee one I've heard on collections when I've been in the lion costume - "D'you want a cosy?" (Do you want a hug?)

Coming from Dundee I have to say, "Eh'd like a peh 'n an ingin in 'n ah"

Also, "It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht".

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[Koala Boy]

[s]Pinky but Perky wrote on 17:58, 9th Mar 2005:
ooh! another distinguishing feature of the aberdonian language is "fit"


"Fit like?" is the standard Aberdonian greeting, with "s'latah" being a good choice of parting words in the Silver City.

Not just "fit", but most of the rest of the question words have f instead of wh:

Who? - Fa?
What? - Fit?
Where? - Far?

Why? has no Aberdonian variation, except maybe "fit why?".

The f style question words make some fantastically unintelligable phrases...

Far ye ga'in?
Fit yis daein?
Far aboots is 'at?

and the king of them all - Fazzat?

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[Iain]

"ken" in the doric? Is that just the same as saying "you know?" the very annoying phrase people tend to use!

After all, "ken" as in "dae ye ken" means do you know.

I like gadgie. But I don't use it that often. Dingwall is notorious for it.

[Bread Roll]

I like the words 'owt' and 'nowt'.

You don't get owt fer nowt.

And 'that's champion, that is'

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[Miz Manda]

[s]Koala Boy wrote on 18:57, 9th Mar 2005:
[s]Pinky but Perky wrote on 17:58, 9th Mar 2005:[i]
ooh! another distinguishing feature of the aberdonian language is "fit"


"Fit like?" is the standard Aberdonian greeting, with "s'latah" being a good choice of parting words in the Silver City.

Not just "fit", but most of the rest of the question words have f instead of wh:

Who? - Fa?
What? - Fit?
Where? - Far?

Why? has no Aberdonian variation, except maybe "fit why?".

The f style question words make some fantastically unintelligable phrases...

Far ye ga'in?
Fit yis daein?
Far aboots is 'at?

and the king of them all - Fazzat?

[/i]

It's not a colloquialism but thought I'd mention the charming west of Scotland habit of using 'how' and 'why' interchangeably. It used to drive my English teacher nuts.

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It's a braw, bricht, moonlit nicht the nicht

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[Duggeh]

Anything thats used in The Broons.



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[oddly familiar]

I like the way that here in Scotland, distinctions are made between all the different types of alcohol, like 'vodka' and 'bacardi' etc, yet everything else is just 'juice'.

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[Pinky but Perky]

[s]oddly familiar wrote on 23:46, 9th Mar 2005:[i]
I like the way that here in Scotland, distinctions are made between all the different types of alcohol, like 'vodka' and 'bacardi' etc, yet everything else is just 'juice'.

of course...alcohol is very important to us

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the knack is finding a grape that actually looks edible....damn you Tesco!

[Pinky but Perky]

ooh....another phrase that is used by aberdonians to say hi is "foos yoor doos" (hows your pigeons) the standard reply is "aye pickin'" (i'm fine ta)

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the knack is finding a grape that actually looks edible....damn you Tesco!

[Guest]

Well it seems there are many Aberdonians proud of Doric. That's great that the Peterhead Asda did that. I brought a Teach yourself Doric book to amuse myself with the confusion of the 'ignorant' southerers who dinna ken fit you're on aboot.
Though I must admit I'm a novice at Doric compared to some Aberdonians. It's great listening to the old Aberdonian ladies and men chatting on the bus. I always like the Stracathro service station slogan 'Ye may gang far and fare waur'.
But yeah 'quines'(girls), 'loons'(boys), 'haud our wheesht'(be quiet) are fun.