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  1. “Very good. And after you had repeated the order, and again he refused, you charged him, and he became abusive?”
    “Yessir.”
    “What did he say?”
    Baxter hesitated. “He called me a shilpit wee nyaff, sir.”
    The president stirred. “He called you what?”
    Baxter coloured slightly. “A shilpit wee nyaff, sir.”
    The president looked at Prosecution. “Perhaps you can translate?”

    —from “McAuslan’s Court-Martial”, by George MacDonald Fraser

    #Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #nyaff

  2. Thair nyaff bledder wad nae win thaim ocht. Especially nae fit thay war langin fer.

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    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-16t - #nyaff
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  3. CW: From birdsite

    Listening to Douglass Ross talk about Nicola Sturgeon won't tell you anything useful about Nicola Sturgeon, but it will tell you an awful lot about Douglas Ross. #Nyaff
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    RT @MrJohnNicolson
    Douglas Ross and the Scottish Tories in a tweet.
    twitter.com/MrJohnNicolson/sta