Oney ex berry pickers or tattie howkers oot here in North Cyprus? :O))

journey1


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 17:52

Jist wunderd if thur wur oney folks 'o the like oot an aboot wantin tae shayur thur stouries un taeuls 'o the feeulds and the braw tymes they hid.

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 17:53

No, be sensible.

aussiejock



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 18:42

Msg 2

he is sensible, cant you read english

proger1



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 18:48

fan I wiz a loon, nae that lang ago grunted you wiz makin five poun a day as a howker and eicht if you wiz dreelin , problem wiz I couldna get e baskets or e side oh the gran size boxes so I wiz stuck wee fighten fowk at thoucht the could shorten their dreel fan the moved up e markers, an fan oan rubbits wee the mixie came sprintin oot fae under the tractor it was a bra sicht

proger1



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 18:49

Pugwash, did the title not give away the fact that this was at least a dialect that you didn't understand ?

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 18:50

Must be another form of 'strine'!



Richard

journey1


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:09

Msg 4 Proger1

Laddie it wis afy guid oh ye tae shaiur -eh hid sic a braw lauff muney a time and oh meh whit carukturs wee 'a met an lauffd wi. Bit laddie aete pund dreelin waur wir ye daen that? meh best fir berries wis ( mind ye in the lugggies and beeg peels- nae baskuts fur us) aboot fev pund un that wis gaen summ lit mi tell yi! Bit 'o whit a lauff in shananagins gaed on -ah jist guid fun - poorin ren and 'a- oh and thon awfy scratchus up yir erms wii the berry canes then the waa'ur, stingun like onythin.Guid tae tak tae yi.

ps pair souul Pugwash - disnae unerstan - mair tae p'ty hum Ah the best

HotHippo


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:22

The Calabrese aye payed mair! An' nae need fur Radox!

Pugwash


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:34

No I don't understand!

nurseawful



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:44

Shit, I am Scottish and cannnae understan!



Chris

journey1


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 19:55

Chris - dinnae wurri - jist gae intae sum kyna medutaeshun an trehh tae thingk aboot yir pest - ehm shaeur itull ah cum bac tae yi . Ah the Best tae yi

journey1


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 20:01

Msg 8 HotHippo

Meh grandfether aye telt mi tae rub in pleni Algipan an boyo if eh wis worried aboot the payen frae the tatties eh hid nae wurries efter the Algipan as eh wis loupin wi the burnin oh meh skin insted. See we didnae hae Radox jist bylt rose petuls fir thi bath. myund yoo wee wis kinda posh cus we hid a reel bath nane 'o they tin thinggies sum 'o meh freends hid.

proger1



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 20:29

Radox, Algipan, ye ahh mist a jist bin rollin in the spends, I wis left wee ma unty trudies horse linament n did she nae ging awa wee the fairies fan she foond oot, thon pain in eh erse quine oh hers hid jist awa n pult her cuddies tnedons n wid ye nae ken it I wis the een wi the imty bottle.



Chris, I can honestly say that writing like this is the hardest language to write, there is no real system, you just write it how it sounds and hope it makes sense at the other end.

There is a guy who writes for the Aberdeen Press and Journal in Doric and I can spend ages just trying to decypher what he has written because he also uses alot more Doric words than I can remember.



ah jist canna be scunnered wi thon noo, oar ahl fur it.



weejockpoohpongmcplop (the dunfermline shitehoose cleaner)

Navek



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 20:35

Hi journey1,

Ah wis a tattie howker in Buchlyvie 1967/68

Navek

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 21:09

I'd send all you 'idiots' to the south, South Island of NZ to Dunedin or Invercargill were in their walled Cities not even the Maori's could understand the lingo and fled in fear. The climate is fantastic to remind you of home; cold, wet, miserable & grey with architecture to suit with, of course, a mutual language which you can while away the day drinking Wilson's NZ Whisky in bliss!



Richard

proger1



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 21:16

Richard, eedyuts if ya dinna mine.



By the way, what is that makes us idiots in your eyes, can you speak maori ? If you were to speak Maori and English would it make you an idiot ?

journey1


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 21:31

Msg 16 proger1 Well spoken and thanks

Msg 15Brinsley Does using the Scots vernacular to have a bit of fun and entertainment whilst I am feeling a little homesick equate to me (and other posts ) 'idiots' ? - not in my books. As for the rest of your comments - well they don't even merit a reply in Scots or my second language. ;O((-

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 21:48

Msg 16 & 17

It was a bloody joke post! I've nothing against the Scots! But true, the very southern part of NZ still speak with a Scots accent to this very day, 6 generations down the track!



Richard

proger1



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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 22:41

Richard, I did take it as a joke but I still wondered why you chose idiots, never mind, we are a stubborn race.



Have you never noticed in bars and even in the movies, they give the toughest guys scottish accents because they think it sounds scarey, ironically it has been done to me on a few occassions, because I normally speak quite englafied I have had other scots boost up the jock accent when they want to intimidate me, I am afraid to say it has one of two affects, I either pee myself laughing or put on my own hardman accent and watch the strange look in the eyes of my enemy, it can be lots of fun really.



In this case Richard a different word would have been preferable but not to worry, we vcan come up with all sorts of names for you and you would have no idea if they even exist bampot

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 22:49

Okay Paul, next we meet up look for me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eGCsEQ15L4



Richard

Scoty


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 23:00

Brinsley - yer an erse, get a grip as yeh hev neh clue as tae whit is goin on. Go find inither post tae bother an leave this ane alane.

Whit his 6 generation NZ got dae wi real life fowk.

Jocks wah hae and wallace bled..........

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 23:04

I best bow out with my head hung well down in submission!



Richard

Scoty


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 23:20

Msg 22 - then the big chopper came along - an chapped yer heid aff.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/10/2010 23:23

Didn't your lot in cahoots with the French got that down to a fine art by inventing the guillotine!



Richard

decanddyl


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 00:11

am fae the outskirts o Edinburgh and cannae write the Doric very weel but al gee it a try



A went berry picking years ago an being a quine the thing that goat me the maist wiz ma finners were

stainned rid. Noo ma brither went tattie howkin an he cam hame with a sair back and a braw bag o tatties, nane o us ever went back.







Cathy

proger1



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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 00:22

nae three bad fur a first gow ma bonnie quinnie. Ahm feert to gan on aboot it but ye'll aye hay a richt sare back fae the tatties. Ah'll ayewiz mine fan ma mitther went howkin alang wee een oh mah aller cuzins fan I wiz oor yung ta ging masell n they come back bletherin aboot how hard it wiz n ah thon awfay loons wiz cheatin em ah day, as yeh kin likely guess the widna gan back eether.



guid nicht, sleep ticht, dinna let eh beasties bicht.

If the bicht, squeeze em ticht.

The winna bicht anither nicht.

decanddyl


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 00:37

Thanks Proger'

A lived and worked in Aberdeen for 16 years prior to coming here (cannae dae that sentince)



Ma naebir aye asked me hoo ma doos wir daein ( hoos yer doos) an if a wantid a fly cup

an he yince telt me ah wiz a feel quine an ither time ha cawed me a wee skunner !





Cathy

ps I love Scotland the What

proger1



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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 00:43

ahm sorry te say, foos yer doos is takin e pish really.

Literal translation is How are your doves (pigeons) but people use it nowadys to say hello.



Funcy cumin throo the hoose fer a fly n a peece, now that is normal.



I do remember being called a wee skunner awell although I have never known what it really meant.

I ken fit skunert means bit nay skunner

johndp


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 12:14

Fit a toat o gairbidge, yir nae haen a clout at they teuchters ur ye faur a bide ea ra mearns its fair gled we a wur at ra berrie picken or howkin an aye win we wurnae daen a that we wur clatting neeps or shuchin the byre or haen a go at ra quinies, fit braw times min

suzi1951


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Message Posted:
11/10/2010 17:21

Weel, it's a fair whilie syne I wiz tattie howkin, but my back wiz aye in agony. Nae sae bad on the second day. A'body ower there are on tattie hoildays the noo, but they dinna gang tattie howkin, A deen by machines noo. Fit a shame, cos the money was guid.

decanddyl


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Message Posted:
12/10/2010 16:02

Hoos yer doos my naebers answer wid be peckin awa peckin awa



His translation would be



How are you today and I'm fine thank you



A skunner as called when a child in Midlothian meant I was being a pain in the backside

aussiejock



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Message Posted:
12/10/2010 16:14

aneek anak anak anak anoo jimmy, huvnie a clu whit um sayin but sounds ok to me





Rab