{"id":523,"date":"2012-01-15T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/?p=523"},"modified":"2012-01-15T21:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T21:48:13","slug":"old-scottish-sayings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/old-scottish-sayings","title":{"rendered":"Old scottish sayings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people struggle to understand the scottish language, its understandable since we have so much slang words. Here is a few\u00a0 phrases and words that may make you giggle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Keep the heid!<\/span> &#8211; <em>Stay calm, don&#8217;t get upset.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">We&#8217;re awe&#8217; Jock Tamson&#8217;s bairns!<\/span> &#8211; <em>We&#8217;re all God&#8217;s children, nobody is better than anybody else &#8211; we&#8217;re all equal.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Dinnae teach yer Granny tae suck eggs!<\/span> &#8211; <em>Don&#8217;t try to teach someone something they already know.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Is the cat deid?<\/span> &#8211; <em>Has the cat died? Means your trousers are a bit short &#8211; like a flag flying at half mast.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Haud yer wheesht!<\/span> &#8211; <em>Be quiet.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ah dinnae ken.<\/span> &#8211; <em>I don&#8217;t know.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ma heid&#8217;s mince<\/span> &#8211; <em>My head&#8217;s a bit mixed up.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Yer aff yer heid<\/span> &#8211; <em>You&#8217;re off your head &#8211; a little bit da<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Speak o&#8217; the Devil!<\/span> &#8211; <em>Usually said when you have been talking about someone &#8211; they usually appear.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: blue;\">Whit&#8217;s fur ye&#8217;ll no go by ye! <\/span>&#8211; <em>What&#8217;s meant to happen will happen.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Some slang words<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dinnae &#8211;\u00a0 don&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>ken &#8211; know<\/li>\n<li>aye &#8211; yes<\/li>\n<li>ye &#8211; you<\/li>\n<li>Braw &#8211; Nice<\/li>\n<li>guid &#8211; good<\/li>\n<li>Blether &#8211; Talks a\u00a0 lot<\/li>\n<li>Breeks &#8211; Trousers<\/li>\n<li>gimme &#8211; give me<\/li>\n<li>Frae &#8211; from<\/li>\n<li>Haud &#8211; Hold<\/li>\n<li>Hoose &#8211; House<\/li>\n<li>Moose &#8211; Mouse<\/li>\n<li>Sleekit &#8211; Sly<\/li>\n<li>Widnae &#8211; Wouldnt<\/li>\n<li>Windae &#8211; Window<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people struggle to understand the scottish language, its understandable since we have so much slang words. Here is a few\u00a0 phrases and words that may make you giggle. Keep the heid! &#8211; Stay calm, don&#8217;t get upset. We&#8217;re awe&#8217; Jock Tamson&#8217;s bairns! &#8211; We&#8217;re all God&#8217;s children, nobody is better than anybody&nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.librairc.net\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}