#Scotstober 2026. Shilpit.
A bodie oot o kilter wi itsel -skinny, peelywally, humphy backit.

#Scotstober 2026 Day 6
Pernickitie: It’s bein ower fussy aboot wee things.

#Scotstober Day 6

Ma heid is hoachin wi things, Ah cannae think o onything tae scrieve, the day.

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

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#Scotstober 2026

Ane thing Ah lik aboot October is the gowden efternuin light.

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 6

LUMBER - Tae get aff wi somebodie on a nicht oot. Tae nip somebodie. Tae click. “Did ye get a lumber?” Daesnae necessarily mean the fou hochmagandie (awtho it can); it's mair than a peck on the chowk but. Repeat efter me: LUMBER.

#Scotstober 5 - #Foosty

From the current WIP - Miss Keillor finds some dodgy meat in the pantry

#Scotstober 2026 Day 5
Yowe - It’s dreich. In the field neist oor hoose aa the yowes are gaithert richt close thegither ablow the anly twa trees. Yowes ay ken!

#Scotstober Day 5

The recent years, ma life haes been a fair kwigger. It's gittin better, but.

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

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#Scotstober Day 5
Happ: October tae me means a cauld air an time tae get happed up in warmer claes.

#Scotstober 2026

Ane thing Ah lik aboot October is oven pumpkin fer denner.

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 5

FOOSTIE - Aff. Mooldit. FOOST (n.) is a wird for moold, an gin somethin is stertin tae FOOST (v.) syne it's gettin rotten. Gin ye'r haudin somethin (e.g. breid) that's FOOSTIN syne ye can cry it FOOSTIE (adj.): “Yon breid is FOOSTIE.” Repeat efter me: FOOSTIE.

#Scotstober Day 4.
Spail: Playin wi a bit o stick wi ma dug, a got a wee spail in ma haund. It wis sair. haed tae dig it oot wi a peen.

#Scotstober day 4 #snotter

This is a fragment that was removed from the final version of Moot. I was sorry to lose it because I like this scene.

#BookSky

#Scotstober Day 4

A cannae mind whan Ah've nae feelt forfochtin... State o the warld, Ah jalouse.

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

@leftpeggers.bsky.social

#Scotstober 2026

Ane thing Ah lik aboot October is at we ur gaein back tae Standard Time 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 4

SNOTTER - Maistly ye’ll see or hear the wird in plural: SNOTTERS. It's the greeny/yella mucus fae oot yer neb that ye dicht wi a snotter-dichter. Or aiblins ye howk them oot yer beak wi yer fingers. Dinnae be tellin me ye eat them but! 🤢 Repeat efter me: SNOTTER

Am A bein daft or is this sense o cruck no in the SND?
#Scotstober

Juist fun WERSH 'bitter taste' in the Arbroath Guide (1910) sae there's anither antedatin fir #Scotstober / #Scotstober2026
Aiblins fae a 1908 ad tae "SWEETENS LIFE. When wersh and raw, try Cheyne's Home-Made Jams." Thon micht juist be 'bland' but

#Scotstober / #Scotstober2026 day 3: HUM-DINKIN an WERSH
The first yin's no in SND (there's no even HUM 'smell' at A can see). The Complete Patter (1985) haes HUM-A-DING-DONG 'very smelly. Ainly HUMDINKIN A've fun is fae a Tartan Army message board (2018): "History shows that Strachan was in >>>

#Scotstober Day 3

Efter hell whan the grue wis gane, days feelt blaik an warsh. Thare is an ill pairt ahint hell.

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

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