My mother liked buying me and my siblings books from the second hand bookstores and it just so happens that a lot of them are from out there in Scotland. I didn't understand the dialect at first but I started to understand it at some point and now I can understand Scots lmao

by tiptoeoutthewindow

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  2. Netflix needs to make a documentary based on you moving from the Phillipines to Dundee fuelled exclusively by your knowledge of The Broons and Oor Wullie. I want to see you leaving Manila in your dungarees clutching your bucket.

  3. Crivvens, peely wally, jings and help ma boab. The broons and oor wullie are great

  7. Genuinely hilarious there’s someone in the Philippines who can read Scots

  9. Now you’ve got your GCSE in Scottish dialect it’s time to go for an A level and read some Irvine Welsh.

  10. Ah man I recognise every one of those covers. Never should have got rid of my collection!

  13. Well done. It is a useful dialect to have. It enabled me in USSR to distinguish myself from ‘English English’, so I got classified as ‘friendly’. Courtesy of Scottish communist poets.

  15. Ah, could never tell who was more intriguing, Joe Broon and his weights or Maggie and her urge to go dancing.

  17. I’ve just been talking about The Broons today, I love them!

  18. Enjoy the dialect or language. Remember Scottish devolved from ‘Anglo-Saxon’ roots a long time ago. It has a lot of useful words for which there are no direct ‘English English’ counterparts. The real ‘lost language’ is ‘Pictish’, the language of the Picts. St Columba needed two translators to bring his Christian story to them when trying to Christianity. They (the Picts) had no writing system for words but had a lot of graphical symbols they inscribed on stones over the land. Look for diagrams of ‘The Pictish Beast’ or ‘Pictish Beastie’ on the internet..

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