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Words we used

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Another word we used while growing up emerged the other day when my pal Bobby says to Netta his wife, you know where I planked the spare key if you're locked out.

Should that not have been planted. Any thoughts?
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Not sure but I think it to do with hiding money under the floorboards hence under the plank and so on?

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Hughie., That reminds me of a "social"evening in Nigeria with a bunch of Jocks, mainly from Glasgow. I have been away from Scotland for many years and I was crying with laughter at some of the sayings when the booze was flowing. I remember "Gie ye the boak", "Ah wis fair scunnered" and many more I can't remember. The highlight was when a little Nigerian girl (who obviously had a Scots boyfriend) come up a say "yer minging" (cleaned that one up).
That prompts for a new topic.

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Hi Hughie. We definately used 'planked' in Stevenston.

It's funny because for some completely unexplainable reason this morning I was thinking about 'pockies.'

Anybody remember what they were?

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mittens, if you lost one too often your mum would attach them by any means with something long enough to go through the sleeves and 'round your neck!
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I had a pint in the Horse Shoe in Glasgow a few weeks ago when some boys from an amateur football team came in after a match. One of their number was absent because his wife had the HEMS on him. One of those present was getting pelters for earlier unsuccessfully trying to place a penalty when he should have given it RABS FAITHER. And a fairly heavy defender, whose catch phrase was "Jist gie us another bag hen" (crisps) was openly referred to as RAB HA', presumably after the GLESGA GLUTTON.

I wish I had taken a notebook and pencil. There were lots more but I couldn't remember them the next morning.
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I suppose spicket is wan o they wurds tae, as is spug.
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Meekan,

What is spug?
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A sparrow.
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Meekan,

Captain Campbell in his poetry says its a 'speugh'! I thought you had misprinted a reference tae a tattie. :wink:
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meekan, you beat me to " spicket" it was a word regularly used in the home when I was a lad.
One that I was never accustomed too that my better half used " shes that fawr through".
Speug (sp) was a common terminology for the Sparrow.
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My dad grew up in England and he referred to them as speugh's, as in spee yugs, too. (Ah ken, L.P., Ah ken! She said in BRACKETS lol..)
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