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#Scotstober
#Scotstober2026

#Scotstober Day 7

Ilka year, thare ur puddocks veesitin the wee pownd at the pairk tae breed.

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*Ah'm nae native spikker
**wird: puddock

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#Scotstober 2026

Ane thing Ah lik aboot October is at it's gittin caulder agin.

Fit's a thing ye lik aboot October?

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*Thare hasnae been ony annooncement fir the year's #Scotstober, sae Ah'm skaerin things Ah lik aboot October.
**Ah'm nae native spikker.

#Scotstober Day 7 - TAPSALTEERIE

This one is a good example of the nature of spelling variation. There are lots of variants, but they are mostly homophones and one is far more common than the others.

Its difficult to argue that some spellings represent a regional pronunciation.

#Scotstober Day 7 - PEELIE-WALLIE
Examination of the word family within a corpus of 21st century Scots texts

#Scotstober Day 7 #peely-wally

From my current WIP, Maggie Walls Wood, in which Bob Kelty meets the great poet, William Soutar

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#Scotstober Day 6 #hoachin

Taken from my third novel, Moot.

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#Scotstober 2026 7
Sclim. Tapsileerie.
As bairns we wid sclim the fence aside the railway line an gae heid first tapsilteerie doon the bankin richt tae the track! It wis guid fun at the time!

Turns oot A wis ower-optimistic wi ma Scotland patter. Ach weel, back tae the Vogts era we gang...

An A'm cawin it the noo, England a stick on for the Euro 28 final, an shoud fancy thirsels tae win the dammt thing.

Back tae auld claes an parritch at the weeken...
#scotstober

These #Scotstober posts are gonna come in dead useful when I'm up in Glasgow next month for our impromptu board game "convention".

Looking forward to being badly stabbed in a Morrisons carpark - and I will definitely deserve it!

#Scotstober Day 7

PEELIE-WALLIE - Shilpit. No weel leukin. Fauchie. Pale. “Ye'v been awfy peelie-wallie syne yon vampire but yer thrapple, hen. Ye unner the wather?” “A'm fine. Noo shut up an gie’s a moothfu yer bluid, ya banger.” Repeat efter me: PEELIE-WALLIE.

Here eh #Fitbaspaeman patter for eh nicht:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 4 - 1 🇨🇿

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 1 - 1 🇸🇮

A weish tae hang that A'm wrang an Scotland bang in twa or shree. A cannae see it but.

Onywey, MON EH FITBA!!!
#scotstober

#Scotstober #Scottish #Scots #foosty #bread #toast Day 5
“Ach! The breid’s gone foosty.”

#Scotstober #sneeze prompt 4 #snotter
‘In the name o the wee man! Yer an awfy snotter-box the-day o aw days.’

#animated #scotstober prompt 3 #hum-dinkin #rat #meal #cartoon
In Scots: “This is bealin! It’s hum dinkin.” (animated)

In English: “I am not eating this, it is stinking.”

#Scotstober Day 2 #bahoochie #Scottish #Scots #language
“Here ah come . . . Here ah come . . . ahm gonna skelp yer bahoochie wi this.”

#Scotstober #Scotstober2026 #prompt1 #baffies #slippers #Teacher
Ah dinna ken if it’s richt tae caw them things baffies.”

#Scotstober day 6 an anither antedating. Got LUMBER back fae 1992 tae 1968

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#Scotstober 6 - PERNICKETY

#Scotstober 6 - LUMBER