Tuesday 3 April 2007

'NUMPTY'

Scotland's favourite word is "numpty" and I love it! There are many expressive Scottish words in use and with the right dialect, volume and tone ..... these sound fantastic.

Children's charity "I Can" did an online survey to find the favourite words from all over the UK. Everyone paid £1 to enter their favourite onto a word wall and the results were collated. If you want to read more ..... the BBC news page has the info.

This has got my brain a ticking and I have come up with this list of MY favourite 10 scottish words ......

1. Numpty - fool, idiot
2. Peelywally - pale - my legs are looking a bit peelywally
3. Bowfin - horrible, disgusting
4. Crabbit - grumpy, bad mood
5. Dreich - miserable, cold, wet weather
6. Glaikit - glazed expression, stupid
7. Shoogle - shake
8. Keek - look
9. Wheesht - be quiet
10. Gutters - mud

... the list is endless.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nice ones! I once knew a Scot who would ask "has he went yet?", which I thought was great.