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#Scotsober 2023

Jamie Fairbairn, Scots Speaker of Year with Michael Dempster.

This October is wir third #Scotstober!

Pairty time, sae dae a turn – a drawin, a poyum, a sang, a joke, a story, a comic or whitever the wird o the day inspires ye tae dae. There a wird fir ilkane o the days o the month, ye kin share it wi awb’dy uisin the hashtag #Scotstober fir grown ups an #BairnsScotstober fir wee-anes.

Haein fun is whit we’re aw aboot!

Hit’s no aboot bein the best, hit’s aboot intertainin wan anither.

Pace yersel. Dae aw the wirds, or a haunfae, tak a brek an jyne in whane’er ye want.

Some wirds ye’ll ken, an fir thaim thit ye dinnae, pap them intae the Scots Dictionary at www.dsl.ac.uktae lairn mair aboot the wirds o oor language!

1st – fain

2nt – doon

3rd – bangster

4t – stamagast

5t – faur / faar

6t – ettle

7t – hunker

8t – pooer

9t – glade

10t – wellsom

11t – marra / marrae

12t – grumlie

13t – fuil

14t – lurdan

15t – heize

16t – kemp

17t – hirple

18t – disjaskit

19t – wanhap

20t – ablow

21st – duil

22nt – glower

23rd – jo

24t – oot

25t – daur

26t – powstie

27t – loss

28t – hail

29t – hame

30t – neebour

31st – neep, tumshie, baigie

No long noo tae the Scots Language Awards

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