How do these Scots words make you feel? Do you recognise them? Do you use some or all of them? Do you know people who do? Even if it’s the first time you’re seeing some of these words written down, what are you thinking? The Broons? Oor Wullie? Burns? The Medieval Makars? Tenements? Closes? Fermers? Up north, down south, East Coast, West Coast? Folk you know from other parts of Scotland? The guy who lives in our street. He talks like that. Father, mother, grandfather, gran. They used these words. Me myself? I used them when I was a wean, I mean, when I was a kid, but I don’t any more. My own bairns. They use them and I wish they didn’t. These words are horrible. Look at them. Common as muck. Enough to make your skin crawl. Aye, but they’re beautiful too. They’re part of what makes us different, part of what makes us Scottish.
The Scots language is quite literally all around us. You can’t go far in modern Scotland without meeting it. We hear Scots in the home, in the supermarket, in the street. Scots is spoken by neighbours, colleagues, friends and relatives.
For many of us, it is a part of our being, the prism through which we see and experience the world. It is our mother tongue which, in spite of the other languages and idioms we pick up along the way, never completely fades and is always with us.
No heard that word before?
hoose - house
wrang - wrong
aye - yes/always
baith - both
sair - sore
puddock - frog
sleekit - sly
wabbit - tired
nicht - night
hame - home
hert - heart
heid - head
lugs - ears
midden - mess
bubblyjock - turkey
craw - crow
lowpin - jumping
fouter - potter
stane - stone
crabbit - grumpy
thae - those
pinkie - little finger
ingan - onion
howff - pub
fankle - muddle
weel-kent - famous
provost - mayor
polis - police
stookie - plaster cast
drookit - drenched
shoogle - shake
a piece-a sandwich
"hawd your weished"- be quiet.
"dinnae ken" - I don't know".
Our prophet(S.A.W) said:Barangsiapa mempelajari bahasa sesuatu kaum,maka dia akan selamat dari tipu daya mereka(kaum tersebut).
surah al-Hujuraat ayat 13:
[يأَيهَُّا النَّاسُ إِناَّ خَلَقْنَكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَْى وَجَعَلْنَكُمْ شُعُوباً وَقَبَآئلَِ لتَِعَرَفُواْ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عَندَ اللَّهِ
أَتْقَكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ ]
(13. O mankind! We have created you from a male and a female, and made you into nations
and tribes that you may know one another. Verily, the most honorable of you with Allah is that
(believer) who has At-Taqwa. Verily, Allah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.)
Source:www.aloscotland.com
