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0:15:02 > 0:15:04- Our favourite Scots words are... - Neep.
0:15:06 > 0:15:07Coo.
0:15:08 > 0:15:09Gie.
0:15:10 > 0:15:11Michty.
0:15:12 > 0:15:13Foos yer doos!
0:15:15 > 0:15:16Tattie.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18Fit like.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Our favourite Scottish words!
0:15:23 > 0:15:27For these Aberdonian schoolchildren, speaking,
0:15:27 > 0:15:29writing and reading in Scots is very important.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31They've even got a magic bus to help them.
0:15:31 > 0:15:35I'm a muckle fearsome pirate wi' a beard like a hairy dug
0:15:35 > 0:15:39A bunnet wi' twa fight-crossed banes and a gold ring in my lug
0:15:39 > 0:15:43But my pirate days are numbered as the joiner can confirm
0:15:43 > 0:15:47He's diagnosed my wooden leg has terminal woodworm.
0:15:47 > 0:15:52Down the road in Dundee, poet Mark Thomson lives and breathes Scots.
0:15:52 > 0:15:55He's particularly passionate about his native dialect.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58It's the tartans, it's the pipes, it's using words like glaikit
0:15:58 > 0:16:00Halkit, barkit, crabbit, clype
0:16:00 > 0:16:03Potted hough, haggis, stovies, cybies, tripe.
0:16:03 > 0:16:06It's the hills, it's the heathers, it's the lochs, it's the glens
0:16:06 > 0:16:08It's aboot the Highland games
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Tossin' the caber, throwin' the hammer
0:16:10 > 0:16:12And being 500 miles awa fae the Thames
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Hairy coos and hardy bits
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Highland dancin', bonny views
0:16:17 > 0:16:20Eagles, ospreys, red grouse, capercaillies
0:16:20 > 0:16:22Ceilidhs, clansmen, kilts and claymores
0:16:22 > 0:16:25Blended single malts, whiskies galore
0:16:25 > 0:16:28It's the highlands, the islands, stags, nooks, crannies and crags
0:16:28 > 0:16:30It's a' that and mair
0:16:30 > 0:16:32It's just bein' Scots withoot the red hair
0:16:32 > 0:16:34But it's much bigger than that...
0:16:34 > 0:16:38It's just bein' Scottish and it's as simple as that.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48When I write, I've got a choice of Scottish words, English words
0:16:48 > 0:16:50and Dundonian words, as well.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54So when I'm looking for a word, I'm no stuck.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56I can play aboot with the three of them, like.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59And for me when I'm writing stuff it's aboot...
0:16:59 > 0:17:01It's aboot usin' sounds.
0:17:01 > 0:17:05No necessarily words, it's the sound for me
0:17:05 > 0:17:06that creates the meaning
0:17:06 > 0:17:09and the flow and the rhythm of what I'm actually kinda writing about.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13It's just like when Burns was livin' 250 years ago,
0:17:13 > 0:17:17Burns used his ain dialect and it's great to hear.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20Back in the 1780s, many literate,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23educated people were moving away from Scots,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26but Rabbie Burns published his first collection of poems
0:17:26 > 0:17:29chiefly in the mither tongue.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31For me, Burns is very important.
0:17:31 > 0:17:35He's very important to the Scottish language to have kept it alive.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38If Burns hadnae have been writing in his ain dialect as well
0:17:38 > 0:17:41we wouldnae be talking aboot him the day.
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Up In The Morning Early by Robert Burns.
0:17:43 > 0:17:46Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west
0:17:46 > 0:17:48The drift is driving sairly
0:17:48 > 0:17:51Sae loud and shrill's I hear the blast - I'm sure it's winter fairly!
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Up in the morning's no for me, Up in the morning early
0:17:55 > 0:17:57When a' the hills are cover'd wi' snaw
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I'm sure it's winter fairly.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02The Check-Oot Quine's Lament by Sheena Blackhall.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Tatties, neeps, and ingan, Poother for the wash
0:18:06 > 0:18:10Wullie's needin new sheen, Grip, skyte, flash
0:18:10 > 0:18:13Noo ma shift is endin, Beans and orange squash
0:18:13 > 0:18:16Hame tae dee the hoosewirk, Up, oot, dash!
0:18:17 > 0:18:19It's about where you're fae.
0:18:19 > 0:18:22And your accent and your dialect is where you're fae,
0:18:22 > 0:18:24so dinnae change it.
0:18:24 > 0:18:25Keep it the way it is.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28It's important, and let's keep it alive.
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