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Jined-up letters: a Scots metaphor

Posted by: Stuart Mudie

25 Jun 08 - 08:09

Ma wee lassie, wha's no lang tirnt five, has jist startit lairnin tae scrieve in jined-up letters at the scaill. "En attaché", they cry it here in Fraince.

"Dad," she sayz til iz the ither day, "gonnae show iz hou tae scrieve 'Daddy' en attaché?"

Whit a scunner! I had tae tell her that Da... more

Whit's this? Wha's this?

Posted by: Stuart Mudie

18 Jun 08 - 10:51

Hullo, I'm Stuart Mudie.

I'm originally fae Dundee but, like monie a Scot afore iz, gaed awa tae seek ma fortune furth o the auld kintra and, efter a puckle years in Spainy (first in Galeisy, then in Barcelona), I'm noo bidin in Pairis, whar I'm shacked up wi a Welsh lass an wir wee lassie (wh... more