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  1. RE: ohai.social/@KokopelliBFree/11

    It wis anither braw #Scotstober, the year. As a body 'at is nae native spikker, Ah've lairnt muckle an haed a grand time creatin. Thankye awbody, specially @DrMDempster fer hostin.

    Here's 'e hale threid o ma Scots crack Fallin Brochs.

    ---
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @writingcommunity

  2. RE: ohai.social/@KokopelliBFree/11

    It wis anither braw #Scotstober, the year. As a body 'at is nae native spikker, Ah've lairnt muckle an haed a grand time creatin. Thankye awbody, specially @DrMDempster fer hostin.

    Here's 'e hale threid o ma Scots crack Fallin Brochs.

    ---
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @writingcommunity

  3. RE: ohai.social/@KokopelliBFree/11

    It wis anither braw #Scotstober, the year. As a body 'at is nae native spikker, Ah've lairnt muckle an haed a grand time creatin. Thankye awbody, specially @DrMDempster fer hostin.

    Here's 'e hale threid o ma Scots crack Fallin Brochs.

    ---
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @writingcommunity

  4. RE: ohai.social/@KokopelliBFree/11

    It wis anither braw #Scotstober, the year. As a body 'at is nae native spikker, Ah've lairnt muckle an haed a grand time creatin. Thankye awbody, specially @DrMDempster fer hostin.

    Here's 'e hale threid o ma Scots crack Fallin Brochs.

    ---
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @writingcommunity

  5. RE: ohai.social/@KokopelliBFree/11

    It wis anither braw #Scotstober, the year. As a body 'at is nae native spikker, Ah've lairnt muckle an haed a grand time creatin. Thankye awbody, specially @DrMDempster fer hostin.

    Here's 'e hale threid o ma Scots crack Fallin Brochs.

    ---
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @writingcommunity

  6. This wis 'e saison o #Samhain. Tae handsel 'e new beginnins, ilka body pit up their bagies, neeps, tumshies, pumpkins, or ony licht thay haed.

    A Lichtsome Samhain!

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-31st Halla E'en! - #neep, #tumshie, #baigie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  7. This wis 'e saison o #Samhain. Tae handsel 'e new beginnins, ilka body pit up their bagies, neeps, tumshies, pumpkins, or ony licht thay haed.

    A Lichtsome Samhain!

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-31st Halla E'en! - #neep, #tumshie, #baigie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  8. This wis 'e saison o #Samhain. Tae handsel 'e new beginnins, ilka body pit up their bagies, neeps, tumshies, pumpkins, or ony licht thay haed.

    A Lichtsome Samhain!

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-31st Halla E'en! - #neep, #tumshie, #baigie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  9. This wis 'e saison o #Samhain. Tae handsel 'e new beginnins, ilka body pit up their bagies, neeps, tumshies, pumpkins, or ony licht thay haed.

    A Lichtsome Samhain!

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-31st Halla E'en! - #neep, #tumshie, #baigie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  10. This wis 'e saison o #Samhain. Tae handsel 'e new beginnins, ilka body pit up their bagies, neeps, tumshies, pumpkins, or ony licht thay haed.

    A Lichtsome Samhain!

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-31st Halla E'en! - #neep, #tumshie, #baigie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  11. Noo, thare wis nae glabber, ony mair, 'cept fer 'e gracious kin in 'e gairdens. 'At wis a thing fer Lent, but.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-30t - #glabber
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  12. Noo, thare wis nae glabber, ony mair, 'cept fer 'e gracious kin in 'e gairdens. 'At wis a thing fer Lent, but.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-30t - #glabber
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  13. Noo, thare wis nae glabber, ony mair, 'cept fer 'e gracious kin in 'e gairdens. 'At wis a thing fer Lent, but.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-30t - #glabber
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  14. Noo, thare wis nae glabber, ony mair, 'cept fer 'e gracious kin in 'e gairdens. 'At wis a thing fer Lent, but.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-30t - #glabber
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  15. Noo, thare wis nae glabber, ony mair, 'cept fer 'e gracious kin in 'e gairdens. 'At wis a thing fer Lent, but.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-30t - #glabber
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  16. Dod! – that’s him nou – eik up the byne;
    afore the hairth, his claen sark hing:
    pit claes is waffin on the line;
    merle on a rowan singin fine.

    —David Purdie, “Merle on a Rowan”

    scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/p

    #Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage

  17. Curtains be hingit afore 'e windaes, an fowk realeesed, 'e warld thay war luikin at wis thairs, agin.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-29t - #hing
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  18. Curtains be hingit afore 'e windaes, an fowk realeesed, 'e warld thay war luikin at wis thairs, agin.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-29t - #hing
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  19. Curtains be hingit afore 'e windaes, an fowk realeesed, 'e warld thay war luikin at wis thairs, agin.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-29t - #hing
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  20. Curtains be hingit afore 'e windaes, an fowk realeesed, 'e warld thay war luikin at wis thairs, agin.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-29t - #hing
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  21. Curtains be hingit afore 'e windaes, an fowk realeesed, 'e warld thay war luikin at wis thairs, agin.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-29t - #hing
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  22. 'E brocks becam breeks 'at buildit hooses, caweys, an lifes. Awbody wirkit thegither. Ower time, 'e erest ingle wis kennelt.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-28t - #ingle
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  23. 'E brocks becam breeks 'at buildit hooses, caweys, an lifes. Awbody wirkit thegither. Ower time, 'e erest ingle wis kennelt.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-28t - #ingle
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  24. 'E brocks becam breeks 'at buildit hooses, caweys, an lifes. Awbody wirkit thegither. Ower time, 'e erest ingle wis kennelt.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-28t - #ingle
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  25. 'E brocks becam breeks 'at buildit hooses, caweys, an lifes. Awbody wirkit thegither. Ower time, 'e erest ingle wis kennelt.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-28t - #ingle
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  26. 'E brocks becam breeks 'at buildit hooses, caweys, an lifes. Awbody wirkit thegither. Ower time, 'e erest ingle wis kennelt.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-28t - #ingle
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  27. Ane efter 'e ither o 'e mony follaed lik rammies 'at follae thair leadin yowe. Suin, 'e mony gat fewer, an 'e wheen gat mair.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-27t - #rammie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  28. Ane efter 'e ither o 'e mony follaed lik rammies 'at follae thair leadin yowe. Suin, 'e mony gat fewer, an 'e wheen gat mair.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-27t - #rammie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  29. Ane efter 'e ither o 'e mony follaed lik rammies 'at follae thair leadin yowe. Suin, 'e mony gat fewer, an 'e wheen gat mair.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-27t - #rammie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  30. Ane efter 'e ither o 'e mony follaed lik rammies 'at follae thair leadin yowe. Suin, 'e mony gat fewer, an 'e wheen gat mair.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-27t - #rammie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  31. Ane efter 'e ither o 'e mony follaed lik rammies 'at follae thair leadin yowe. Suin, 'e mony gat fewer, an 'e wheen gat mair.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-27t - #rammie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  32. Ane o 'e mony see'd fit wis happenin, sat doon, an mootht a ȝammer, afore he gat up, agin, an helpit 'e wheen.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-26t - #ȝammer
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  33. Ane body teuk up a brock, than anither, an anither, an sot 'em ontae a cloot she wad bunnle up, later. Anither body follaed 'er lead.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-25t - #brock
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  34. Thay stertit tae feel a yeuk fer lattin gae o 'e fraucht 'at wisnae thairs tae shooder, an pittin things richt.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-24t - #yeuk
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  35. Puggelt as thay war, thair herts appent awee mair, an e'en mair licht cam throu.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-23t - #puggle
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  36. 'E mony misteuk this fer vance. Nae wunner, as thay coud anely see whit thay kent. 'E wheen, foo-an-iver, aw kent fit thay see'd.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-22nt - #vance
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  37. Nae able tae mind whance thay last feelt sic zeast in thair lifes, 'e wheen exchynged dumfoondit luiks.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-21st - #zeast
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  38. Facin 'e vrack afore thair feet, thay goamt 'e licht gleamin throu 'e cracks, an atween aw 'e wanhowp, thay crackit-up.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-20t - #vrack
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  39. Du gies hooseroom tae a swap o scarfs,
    lodgins ta mallies. A shjalder swanks
    apo dy shooder…

    —Christine De Luca, “Growin Auld (Wasterwick)”
    published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES (Shetland Library, 1997)

    christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wa

    #Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland #Shetlandic #Scots #Scotslanguage

  40. 'Ceptin a wheen o people shooderin 'e fraucht o mony, hirtchin upo 'e gruesome plythe o a warld 'at didnae appear tae be thairs, ony mair.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-19t - #shooder
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  41. “A man’s a man for a’ that” – how does he know?
    Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero,
    Swaggering down the lea-rigs, talking to mice…

    —“James Macfarlan”, by Edwin Morgan
    published in VIRTUAL & OTHER REALITIES (Carcanet, 1997)

    carcanet.co.uk/9781857543476/v

    #Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry

  42. Ilka body wis sae eydent tae traipse aroond fit thay feart 'at nae body stappit, an truelins luikit.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-18t - #traipsie
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  43. 'E view warpit, nae body coud see 'at hit wis thon clifts 'at brocht in 'e licht.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-17t - #warp
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  44. “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

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

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

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

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  46. “Mony a time I have askit mysel’, why witches and warlocks should sell their sauls (whilk are their maist dear possessions) and be auld, duddy, wrunkl’t wives or auld, feckless, doddered men; and then I mind upon Tod Lapraik dancing a’ the hours by his lane in the black glory of his heart.”

    —Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Tale of Tod Lapraik”

    @bookstodon

    Download the free ebook:

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober

  47. Some bodies thocht thaimsels a warlock, houdin oan tae aw thay troued tae be pooer. Thair brochs aye brickled.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-15t - #warlock
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity

  48. You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale” in our free ebook

    AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
    Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott

    🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
    🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
    🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator

    @bookstodon

    asls.org.uk/publications/books

    #Scottish #literature #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #ShortStories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober

  49. People plootert throu shairds in 'e glaur, blent wi tears, sweit, an bluid, awtho thay barelins noticed.

    ---
    (Ah'm nae native spikker.)

    #Scotstober 2025-13t - #plooter
    #WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
    #WritingCommunity

    @DrMDempster @writingcommunity