I forgot about #scotstober this year. Thanks to @leftpeggers.bsky.social for the list this year.

For the uninitiated - Everyday in October a Scots word is introduced. I write snippets of poetry.

Day 10 - girse - grass

thi scrab aiples rottit oan thi girse

birsin unnerfit

thi juice av October

#Scotstober Day 10

Thare ur heich kins o girse at luik michty bonnie aroond this tim o the year.

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

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#Scotstober 2026

Ane thing Ah lik aboot October is watchin mair horror picturs - acause it's the saison.

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 wis a smashin idea. The leid needs fowk like him.

Windae: ma guid-brither ay said the same thing at the feenish o ilka veesit. “If a dinnae see ye throu the week, I’ll see ye throu the windae.”
#Scotstober day 10

#Scotstober Day 10 - #Windae

Fae my maist recent novel, Barvick Falls, set during wartime so aa the windaes were blacked oot in case of German bombing.

#Scotstober day 9 - Loch

From my novel Moot, describing the back road from Monzie to Crieff, skirting Loch More.

#Scotstober 2026 Day 10
Sneck. We ay kep oor door aff the sneck for the bairns rinnin in an oot. But no nooadays. Onybidy wantin ih haes tae knock or ring the bell.

#Scotstober Day 10 - WINDAE

#Scotstober

#Scotstober Day 10

WINDAE - A gless thing ye leuk oot o. Ye hing at it tae watch the warld gae by. Yer erse gaes oot it whan ye'r haiverin. A snidey wey tae refer tae somebodie wi glesses, e.g. “SHUT IT, WINDAES!”. Forby, WINDAES is a PC OS inventit by Bill Yetts. Repeat efter me: WINDAE.

A like #Scotstober 😃

#Scotstober Day 9

The day's wird is 'gean', an Ah dinnae think Ah ken at plant.

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

#Scotstober 2026

Ane thing Ah lik aboot October is a het soupie efter a hairst daunder.

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 2026 Day 9. Scuff: Scuffin or grazin shin agin the stanes o a road wir a quick wey tae wear doon the soles an heels. Mony’s a mither haein tae buy thaim new shin gied bairns a skelp for no liftin thir feet!

#Scotstober Day 9 - LOCH

I've changed the text size from previous entries. Is that better or worse?

Also I'm not sure about getting into semantics in the notes, is that something writers, learners or subeditors might care about?

Tae hae said aboot ye that ye ‘fancied yer barry’ implied ye thocht a lot o yersel - a cut aboon others in the same company.
#Scotstober 9 barry

#Scotstober Day 9
Barrie:
A barrie wis a flannel claith tae wrap roond a new born bairn. Ma granny makit bairns claes - barries, semmits, goonies.

#Scotstober day 9 Loch

“A’ll mak pea an ham soup” wis ma thocht.
Sae a went oot an bocht a ham hoch.
Gaein hame by the loch,
A drappit the hoch
As it sank oot o sicht a thocht…. “och!”

Whan fowk up fae England say “loch”
They rhyme it wi “brock” an no “broch”;
But thae Sassenachs
Can manage wi “Bach”,
Composer o music Baroch.

#Scotstober