In English please?

[Phil]

I worked for a while for an American company here and got used to the blank looks when I used a word or saying in Scots so I understand the problem. The trouble is many of us were brought up at home and at school using Scots and tend to come out with it without thinking because in many cases we find it describes something very succinctly and in a way that is instantly recognisable. "Slitter" is a case in point, you are eating your meal and haven't noticed that you have spilt gravy all down your front. In Scots we would say "you've slitterd" whereas in English you would probably say "you've spilled something all down yourself". Likewise you might call a child "a wee slitter" because it had made a complete mess of itself eating it's food.
Here is a post I made here a wee while back (a little while ago) not meant for general consumption. I have translated - And what's with the "old" and you frae(from) Glesga(Glasgow) too? I slittered a(all) doon(down) masel(myself) when I heard that yin(one). But dinnae(don't) fash(worry) yersel(yourself), efter(after) I plootered(paddled) through the glaur(sticky mess or mud) I fun(found) a cloot(cloth) an slarried(spread messily) it a(all) ower(over) the keyboard. Noo(now) it's a(all) clarty(dirty,messy) but nivver(never) mine(mind). Some is just reproducing english words in a Glasgow accent whereas some are distinctive Scots words - slitterd,fash,plootered,glaur,cloot,slarried,clart y. The language is supposed to have its origins in Anglo Saxon and spread northwards replacing Gaelic after the Norman conquest. As a Germanic language it has some words such as "snell" in common.
If there are any you don't understand just ask as I know everyone will be only too happy to help out.

[wsk]

If there are any you don't understand just ask as I know everyone will be only too happy to help out.

And that is part of what makes this a place of conversation. Questions are the tools we use to fill in the chinks and crannies (and great, gaping holes) in our knowledge.

Uniformity is pleasing to the military mind - been there, done that. Here where we are kilties, we are not uniform and our habbits and our voices reflect that non-uniformity. Hurray for that, I say.