Scottish Learning Festival

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Scottish Learning Festival

• SCOTTISH
• LANGUAGE
• DICTIONARIES

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www.scuilwab.org.ukGetting guid at Scots
14Notes for Parents and teachers
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A dramatic chase Feelins feart, frichtit,
pechin, connacht, puggelt Movement rin, leg,
stour, skelp, chase, breenge, skelter, wheech,
mak up on, owertak, jouk, jink ramstam,
heid-lang, hail-tear, heelstergowdie Fitness
souple, swack, swippert,

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Level 7The eponym quiz

• (An eponym is a wird formed frae a proper name,
  either a personal name or a place name.)
• Click on the richt answer

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1. Whit wad ye dae wi a Selkirk bannock

• wear it on yer heid
• dance it
• eat it

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Nae wey! Hae anither shot.
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?Braw.
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Gwen meets

• Gwen Guid mornin. Ah'm here frae the Scots
  Language Dictionaries tae see if A can find oot a
  wee bit aboot fairies. Can ye spare me a wee
  minute o yer time?
• Fairy We fairies live a lang, lang time. Aiblins
  A hae mair time tae spare than ye dae yersel.
  Speir awa.

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Gwen Fave colour? Ghaist Like maist ghaists,
A tend tae favour grey or green. Maybe white for
spectral occasions. See me, conventional. That's
whit Ah am. I dinnae like nuthin ower
phosphorescent.
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Gwen Fave music? Ghaist Ony o the goth bands.
They're pure dead brilliant. Gwen Fave celeb?
Ghaist Caspar's fit, and they say he's a nice
dude in real daith. O the aulder anes, Ah like
Banquho. He's a bit o a radge.
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Gwen Fave food? Ghaist That's an awfie
tactless question. Ah'm jist deein for a piece on
jam an a cuppie tea and A've no been able tae
digest a thing for three hunner year. Ah've nae
real substance ye see. If ye gied me a sup o yer
Irn Bru, it wid jist faw richt through me and mak
a puddle on the flair.
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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue(12th
Century to 1700)The Scottish National
Dictionary(1700 to the present day)
www.dsl.ac.uk
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• Found 199 DSL Entries containing "halloween" in
  the Full Entry Field SNDS2    1. (100) DOOK,
  v SND1      2. (87)_ HALLOW, n SND1      3.
  (45)_ STOCK, n SND1      4. (27)_ SHANNACK,
  n SND1      5. (27)_ SOWNACK, n SND1      6.
  (27)_ RANT, v SND1      7. (27)_ WECHT,
  n SNDS      8. (24)_ FAYTER, n SNDS2    9.
  (24)_ HALLOW, n SNDS2   10. (24)_ NEEP,
  n SNDS     11. (24)_ ASTEER, adv SNDS     12.
  (24)_ BATTERIN DOOR NICHT, batterinaposdoornic
  ht SNDS     13. (24)_ BELLMAN, n
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• DSL - S
• BATTERIN' DOOR NICHT. Phr. batterin' door nicht,
  a prank, played by boys on the night before
  Halloween , of knocking on doors and then running
  off (Mry. 1967 Northern Scot (28 Oct.) 4).

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 SHANNACK, n. Also -ache, -ie and freq. in dim.
forms shanacle, shinicle. A bonfire, specif. one
lighted on  Halloween  (Per. 1808 Jam., shannach,
shinicle), now more gen. of any fire lit out of
doors, for amusement, to burn garden refuse, etc.
(Per. 1915 Wilson L. Strathearn 270 Per., Fif.
1970, shannach, shanacle). See also SOWNACK.
nIk(l)     Per. 1903 C. Johnson Land of
Heather 79     The young folks find pleasure in
the dusk of the chilly evenings gathering the
hedge cuttings and rubbish into piles and making
great shanacles.      Per. 1959 Daily Express
(8 April)     A see yer haein' a guid gairden
shannack.     Gael. samhnag, a  Halloween 
bonfire, from Samhuinn,  Halloween .
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