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It's been a while since I made a Scottish slang/ Scottish words video.
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I picked ten famous Scottish phrases.
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I'll write them from my 10th favorite to my favorite phrase.
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Bear in mind that this kind of phrases vary from place to place.
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Some places might still use these phrases; some places may not.
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I know that I only use a couple of these, but here we go!
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Number 10 is, "yer bum’s oot the windae".
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That means that someone's talking absolute nonsense.
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Like, if a person is talking rubbish, you would say, "yer bum’s oot the windae",
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but that's one I have never used.
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I personally have never heard it or used it, I don't think.
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I live in West Dunbartonshire.
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But let me know in the comments below if you've heard someone using this phrase.
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That sounds like one that may be more used by elderly people or people that are a bit older.
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I don't know but I thought I'd include it 'cause I thought it was quite funny.
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Number 9 is definitely one that I've heard and it's "awa' and bile yer heid".
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And it means, "oh...get lost. Don't talk rubbish."
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Kind of like the last one. I have never heard anybody use this around this area and I see this way.
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It's definitely one that I've heard of, and if you look up a bit of Scottish slang,
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then that is usually a phrase that would crop up.
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Basically just means, "don't be so ridiculous"
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Number 8 is one that I have heard quite often actually and it's "wit’s fur ye’ll no go by ye".
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And it just means, "what is meant to be will be", "que sera sera".
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It's our Scottish version of saying "que sera sera" or "what will be will be".
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Number 7 is a famous one and it's "lang may yer lum reek".
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Now, I've never personally said this, ever.
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I think I've only heard older people say this before.
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But it's the Scottish version of "live long and prosper".
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And a "lum" is a "chimney", so that is translated to "longly your chimney smoke",
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also translated to "may you never be without fuel for your fire",
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or yeah, "live long and prosper".
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Number 6, again, I've not heard them use this before,
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but I love it anyway and maybe I'll start using it, even though people would probably think I'm mental.
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"Dinnae fash yerself."
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And "dinnae fash yerself" means "don't worry about it", "don't even bother about it",
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"don't let yourself get in a state about it".
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Number 5 is one that I have used and I've heard a lot of people use it around here,
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and it's "He's up to high doh." or "She's up to high doh."
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and it just means they're getting themselves in a state, they're getting themselves all worked up,
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getting themselves riled up so they're up to high doh.
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I love that phrase. I don't know why.
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Number 4 is another pretty famous one and it's "haste ye back".
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"Haste ye back" just means "come back soon", basically.
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A lot of you probably heard that one before.
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Number 3 is an arbitrary phrase, and it's "haud yer wheesht".
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I work with older people and you do hear a lot of them say "wheesht", and stuff like that, quite a lot.
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I don't normally hear people saying "haud yer wheesht", but "wheesht" is definitely used on a regular basis, in my life anyway.
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I enjoy the word "wheesht", but "haud yer wheesht" is definitely a famous phrase as well.
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It means "shut up", "be quiet", "stop talking". "Haud yer wheesht."
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Number 2. I love number 2. "It gies me the boak."
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I use this a lot. When someone gets the boak, they feel sick.
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If you see something disgusting, you would say "oh, that's gieing me the boak."
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"It's just making me feel sick and it's making me throw up in my mouth."
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An example for me: if I could smell something minging, I'd be like, "oh that's gieing me the boak."
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I hate it when people spit. It makes me feel sick.
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So if I saw someone spit, I'd be like...I'd be getting the boak! It would be gieing me the boak.
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My number one famous phrase is "geein it laldy". I love that phrase so much.
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I don't say it as often as I should, but it just means "giving it your all".
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If you're "geein it laldy", you're giving it everything.
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So if someone's dancing and they're going mad, you'll be like, "they're geein it laldy."
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I just love that phrase so much.
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I want to give some honorable mentions right because people will be like, "oh, you forgot this." "oh, you forgot this."
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And I could only pick ten, so these are the ten that I picked.
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But if you want to leave your top ten in the comments below, feel free.
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But I want to give some honorable mentions to "ah dinnae ken".
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When someone thinks of the Scottish language, they probably think we all say the phrase "ah dinnae ken".
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I've never said that, seriously. I say it sometimes, like, "Ooh dinnae ken", as a joke.
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But I wouldn't say that because I don't live in an area that actually says the word "ken".
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But "dinnae ken" is another famous phrase that a lot of people think is what old Scottish people say, but that's not the case.
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It just depends where you live.
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And another honorable mention. I've been swaying between putting this as my number one, because I get brown.
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And it's "skinny malinky long legs".
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When I was a wee one, I was quite skinny and tall, and my dad used to call me "skinny malink".
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And "skinny malinky long legs" can relate to a song, or as part of a song that we all learned as kids around here.
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I don't know. Maybe some people didn't.
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It was like, "Skinny Malinky long legs, big banana feet, went to the pictures and couldn't get a seat.
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When the picture started, Skinny Malinky farted."
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The "pictures" is a "cinema", by the way, for all those people...I think that's a Scottish word as well.
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"Going to the pictures" would be "going to the cinema".
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"Skinny malinky long legs" is just something that's tall and lanky and skinny, and has long legs and big banana feet.
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I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Leave your favorite Scottish sayings in the comments below, and I'll see you later! Bye!