Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:32 pm
shakkin briggie at Cults I've been on - but that was years ago (School days). If thats the one youre talking about it's still there - just!
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:38 pm
It would have been the early 50's, had long holidays with friends at Mannofield opposite the water works, where I was led to believe Wee Willie Winkie lived in one of the towers... Rubieslaw was still working then as well - pretty sad by the 90's.
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:47 pm
That'll be the same bridge then..... although I can assure you Wee Willie Winkie did not live at the Mannofield Water Works. He did in fact live in the shed at the bottom of my Grandfathers garden.
Scots
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:14 pm
10 oota 10, bit a dinna like tae brag, ye ken. 
Wurds nae langer aften usit...
Forfochan
Whigmaleerie
Tumshie
Tapsalteerie
Slaister
Hochmagandie
an some foulk wid hae ye telt it's jist a dialec o Inglis...
Wurds nae langer aften usit...
Forfochan
Whigmaleerie
Tumshie
Tapsalteerie
Slaister
Hochmagandie
an some foulk wid hae ye telt it's jist a dialec o Inglis...
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:38 am
0/10. Didn't understand one word.Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:51 pm
6 out of 10 - not bad for a 'saes' - whoops sorry thats Cymraeg !!
When I was a nipper I used to play down in the 'Cowp' (sp.?) outside Milngavie - any takers ?
SH
When I was a nipper I used to play down in the 'Cowp' (sp.?) outside Milngavie - any takers ?
SH
Coup, cowp
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:04 pm
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To coup or cowp is to tip, so my guess would be that you were playing in the tip or municipal rubbish dump??
Unless of course it was the Cope or Copie, in which case it would have been the Co-op.
To coup or cowp is to tip, so my guess would be that you were playing in the tip or municipal rubbish dump??
Unless of course it was the Cope or Copie, in which case it would have been the Co-op.
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:14 pm
definitely down the tipstephenh wrote:6 out of 10 - not bad for a 'saes' - whoops sorry thats Cymraeg !!
When I was a nipper I used to play down in the 'Cowp' (sp.?) outside Milngavie - any takers ?
SH
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:19 pm
Yes it was a tip but not of rubbish , it was steam train ashes, very old, the conical piles covered in bushes - great place for 11 year olds....
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:33 pm
Up our way "Cowp" has yet another meaning.
ie -
I went to the dance last night and walked (insert said lassies name) home.
Oh? Did ye get a cowp?
ie -
I went to the dance last night and walked (insert said lassies name) home.
Oh? Did ye get a cowp?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:00 pm
That's no way to describe Bearsden. Ahem!stephenh wrote:When I was a nipper I used to play down in the 'Cowp' (sp.?) outside Milngavie
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:06 pm
Not Bearsden - Bardowie - I've just 'Google Earthed' it and the Cowp has gone, so has the railway...intriguingly the road leading down to it is still called Station Road
Bearsden had good ice-cream shops IIRC.......!!!
Bearsden had good ice-cream shops IIRC.......!!!
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:28 pm
I learnt a new one at pipe band. We were trying to work out how to stay warm playing for an hour last night outside & someone said we should wear 'hummel dodies'.Rowana wrote: How about some words, sayings Etc. that were used by your parents or grandparents, that are no longer in common use?
Any more?
Hummel = stag with no horns
Dodies = gloves
Hummel dodies = fingerless gloves!
We failed to stay warm, by the way...
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 4:59 pm
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?
Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 5:05 pm
7 out of 10 here too.. from a lancastrian (too many burns night suppers....)