#scotstober — Public Fediverse posts
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RE: https://ohai.social/@KokopelliBFree/115297638655419813
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.
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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!
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-31st Halla E'en! - #neep, #tumshie, #baigie
#WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
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Noo, thare wis nae glabber, ony mair, 'cept fer 'e gracious kin in 'e gairdens. 'At wis a thing fer Lent, but.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-30t - #glabber
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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”
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/merle-rowan/
#Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Curtains be hingit afore 'e windaes, an fowk realeesed, 'e warld thay war luikin at wis thairs, agin.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-29t - #hing
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'E brocks becam breeks 'at buildit hooses, caweys, an lifes. Awbody wirkit thegither. Ower time, 'e erest ingle wis kennelt.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-28t - #ingle
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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.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-27t - #rammie
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Ane o 'e mony see'd fit wis happenin, sat doon, an mootht a ȝammer, afore he gat up, agin, an helpit 'e wheen.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-26t - #ȝammer
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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.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-25t - #brock
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Thay stertit tae feel a yeuk fer lattin gae o 'e fraucht 'at wisnae thairs tae shooder, an pittin things richt.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-24t - #yeuk
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Puggelt as thay war, thair herts appent awee mair, an e'en mair licht cam throu.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-23t - #puggle
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'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.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-22nt - #vance
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Nae able tae mind whance thay last feelt sic zeast in thair lifes, 'e wheen exchynged dumfoondit luiks.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-21st - #zeast
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Facin 'e vrack afore thair feet, thay goamt 'e licht gleamin throu 'e cracks, an atween aw 'e wanhowp, thay crackit-up.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-20t - #vrack
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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)https://www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_wi_da_valkyries
#Scottish #literature #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland #Shetlandic #Scots #Scotslanguage
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'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.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-19t - #shooder
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“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)https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857543476/virtual-and-other-realities/
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Ilka body wis sae eydent tae traipse aroond fit thay feart 'at nae body stappit, an truelins luikit.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-18t - #traipsie
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'E view warpit, nae body coud see 'at hit wis thon clifts 'at brocht in 'e licht.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-17t - #warp
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“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
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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
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“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”
Download the free ebook:
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/strangetales/
#Scottish #literature #RobertLouisStevenson #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober
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Some bodies thocht thaimsels a warlock, houdin oan tae aw thay troued tae be pooer. Thair brochs aye brickled.
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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)#Scotstober 2025-15t - #warlock
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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 narratorhttps://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/
#Scottish #literature #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #ShortStories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober