When I was wee it was 'Is yer budgie deid?' my favourites are ones that my dad used a lot when I was young cos he never ever swore. He'd say 'Yer bums oot the windae' or sometimes use 'Och yer bahookie' if he thought I was talking mince. 'Away and raffle yersel' and 'Get tae France' instead of the other F word. He got all his patter from the shipyards in the 60s.

Love reading through the comments on these types of videos 😂 proud to be Scottish

My Scottish Granny often says “he cannae tell his arse fae his elbow” it always makes me chuckle 😂

Two of my favourites "If you fell in the Clyde, you'd come oot wi a salmon in yer mooth" "That's plenty" (probably not Scottish but it's used in Still Game)

I love videos about Scotland I'm french and I love learning more about Scotland...lots of love ❤️

2:20 - Skinny Malinky was very popular in Edinburgh in the 70's - brings back memories 7:35 - That one must have been used a lot growing up, because I used it a couple days ago - and I've been in the USA for decades now. Random thought - In Shetland, if you're not from there, you're called a "Soothmoother".

From the US, Never heard "Blowin a Hoolie" but i love it!

They say "blowin' a howlie" in Hawaii but it means something else 😂

@jimmyday656

4 жыл бұрын

Just spit coffee on the cat

@rockosbasilisk75

4 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Day xD awwww! Poor kitty lol

@DoktorDamage

4 жыл бұрын

@@rockosbasilisk75 LOL!!!

Scottish language is impressing me really. To me sounds without variation in terms of tonality,but is musical at the same time. Soon i'll move to Edinburgh,so i hope to understand as possible i can and live quietly.

I have never heard ‘Blowing a hoolie’ but I am now going to use it 😂

I just got back from Scotland (live in the US)... I wish I watched this before the trip!

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed!

I love these videos of you so muuuch😍 I can't wait to move to Scotland and learn more, I love love love it. The sayings, the accents... everything 😍

We want more! We want more! These are always fun videos!

LOVE your channel! Thank you!

This reference may be "away with the faeries", but you describing that phrase reminded me of the Queen song "39". Its about earth people who travelled into space looking for a new world. They were gone a year, but when they came back many years had passed ("the earth is old and grey"). So many great new phrases this time Erin. Brava!!

Can’t tell your arse from your elbow: I like this one. I tell my music students that they can’t tell their brass from their oboes.

First video of yours I've seen in a while. Love the video x

Hoolin is actually used in the song, 'are ye sleepin maggie'

awaw an bile yer heid, haud yer wheesht, the tellies oan

I moved to Scotland from South America 2 years ago and I am soooo in love with this country and its people

Talking about phrases i just realized how maney of them i have forgotten and dont use anymore after i left that province lol, great video Erin.

I LOVE your shirt!

As an American, I have definitely never heard any of these phrases, except for "away with the fairies," but that's still not a normal thing to say. I gotta say people in the British Isles are a lot more creative and witty with the English language! It's fun to hear.

I'm from Nottingham I came last night to Glasgow love it

I love your videos, some are hilarious, makes u remember how funny a place to live scotland is xx

one of my favourite ones has got to be "yev git a face lit a skelped arse" 😂

This was a fun and interesting video! Only knew a few of these phrases. Heard the faerie one growing up but was told it was Irish. And a Glasgow video sounds like it would be interesting.

Loved yer latest contribution to my Scots origins. We (7 siblings and I) lost the oldest member of the Saunders clan in May (he would have been 81 a week later); he was always known in the family as "The Big Yin", 'cos he was (and we all are) admirers of Scotland's greatest comedian, Sir Billy Connolly. Keep it up !

High heid yin is one of my faves, we use it all the time at work. I’m fae Aberdeen and Doric has some absolute belters. My cousin moved to Edinburgh and phoned me her first night away in floods of tears because nobody knew was a bosie was. She didnae want a hug or a cuddle, she wanted a bosie!

lol never heard the cat variation before before. But my mom often says "awe... Did yer budgie die?"

These are so funny 😂 Coming to Edinburgh For New year's, can't wait 🍀 I love Scotland ❤️

My North Carolina kin, especially my Aunt, would say "cuttin' aboot tha hoos" (walking around the house) when asked what they were doing. Further translated as "just hanging around, doing much of nothing." Always wondered from where that phrase came.

On the subject of wind..in this country (not sure about others), sandstorms--high winds blowing over a dry desert landscape picking up dust/sand etc--are sometimes called "haboobs" :) No joke. They can be serious despite the name. I think you have one more vlog from your American trip left? LOVING THEM

“Away with the faeries” is my favourite. I use that a lot 😂😂😂

Loved yer video!! Gave me a nice wee chuckle, lol. Cheers, I subbed (Live in Canada, was born in Glasgow).

What a joy to watch & listen to you! It gives my DNA a rise! (I’ll be telling my wife about us tonight...be patient.)

Wow I’ve never hear of a lot of these sayings In glad you’ve done another Scottish Sayins video they”re awsome and Funny 😁

The ones I use is don't come running to me when you brake your leg and do you think I came up the Clyde in a banana boat

ERIN!!!! Thank you

Take a trip with the vomet comet to Shetland, you'll find yourself in Scandinavia! The words they use work in Scandinavia, and there closest railway station is in Norway (Bergen, and that caused a lot of confusion during WWII.)

I've only ever heard one of these, and thank goodness for subtitles 😂

‘How’s your bum for love bites’ is a good one I heard from Kaye Adams as another way of saying hello 😂 think it’s funny 😂

It's bliwin a houlie today with storm Dennis

I got to use Blowin a Hoolie yesterday! The wind was whipping up like a bitch all of a sudden and I blurted it out! ‘Look it’s Blowin a Hoolie out there!!!

LOVE IT some are the same here in the US

you are the prettiest hostess with a superb content!))

Erin, I just thought of another one! "I jist hiv tae wet ma thrapple" ...I thought that as I reached for a drink of water this morning lol. 😀 It's my 71st birthday today and I had the most delicious slice of lemon and passionfruit cheesecake that my husband made me with a cuppa. What a man - 75 years old and can cook and bake. The only thing he can't do is stay quiet so needless to say he does know what "haud yer wheesht" means 🤣🙋‍♀️💕

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Awwww hahah! Belated happy birthday 😊😊

That cuttin' aboot meme is just gold! Never seen it before. 😂

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Good eh?!

Haha, love yer cat dies. 😁 Never heard the Gourock one. 🤔 My Weegie missus said she sung the same version of skinny malinky too. 😆 More hiking films please. 😌

I’d like to see more Scottish myths and legends vid or a A-Z Scottish foods

Great video! 😎🔥👍🏻👏🏻

Duddingston Kirk is where The Reverend Thomson preached...starting his sermons with "Weel ma bairns". The church is well worth a visit. ☺

I've always heard up the Clyde on a bike

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Should've used this one instead!

@mirandolina46

4 жыл бұрын

Also, up the Clyde on a wheelbarrow

I'm American. ......this is cray,cray.... I'd be lost with this jazz

Blowing a hoolie, now I'm away with the fairies.. 😂👌 love your videos ❤️

I absolutely LOVE this video. i wanted to ask, would you ever consider doing a video to help foreigners (particularly Americans) to speak Scottish? I would love to have a native Scots person explain how to speak their language/accent.

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

I have a video on how to do the Scottish accent plus lots of videos of slang words and sayings ☺️

Och...away n bile yer heid......this was a magic memory of just what you might hear as you walk along any street in Glesga...pure dead brilliant hen. Let's not forget the favourite bus driver phrases that have been heard or used when yur packed bus arrives late, as usual....c'mon...get aff......or....c'moan... get oan......or.....A don't know whither yur comin or goin hen..... or ....get aff ya nyaff...or...Aw...he's no aw there that yin....all of this wis... good for ma heid.

Ma granda used tae say av a mooth lit the sole of gandhi's flipflop meaning he had a raging thirst.

One I used to hear a lot was "its yourself" if you recognise someone you hadn't seen for a long time or someone who was famous. Or I dinna mind your face, for I dont recognise you

Please do one on Scottish myths and legends

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

I have a video on Scottish myths and legends but need to do another :)

@xxAndreaxx21xx

4 жыл бұрын

@@ErinsHoose oh i haven't seen that one! Excited to watch it now... how did i miss that? lol

@PaulGarthAviation

4 жыл бұрын

The tales of the Wild Haggis is always a good one. On the East coast, there are the Haggis Scotticus. On the West Coast are the Haggis Caledonius. They each have 8 voices, of which 6 are aggressive, and they have very sharp teeth. Over the years, the East Coast haggis grew shorter left legs so they could stay upright on the hills, heading north. The way to catch a Wild Haggis is to chase it to make it go the other way, and when it rolls down the hill, someone else grabs it in a burlap sack - because of the sharp teeth. Then you boil it, and serve it with neeps and tatties - and loads of salt....

We say “blowin’ a hoolie” here in the Isle of Man, though it’s not considered a phrase that is particularly Manx. Though it does blow a hoolie here a lot

Can't wait to be back in Scotland in a few weeks and try to use some of these in conversations with my bloody german accent 😂

I remember my late mother saying "On yer bike", meaning "piss off" LOL

What is a hoolie? The answer is “blowin in the wind” thanks Bob Dylan..

I'm Scottish ☺ tysm for the heart

'Bairn' said outside Scotland? Has to be an exported word, right? 'Away (awa?) wi' the fairies' describes a lot of my time in school! (mebbe dreaming of Rivendell or Fangorn)

I just want to quench something - coming up the Clyde in a banana boat phrase. I had NO IDEA that this could potentially be seen as racist. I just thought it was a daft wee comment and picturing someone floating on the Clyde in a blow up dinghy seemed silly. Upon reading through a few wee sites etc, the phrase isn't supposed to be racist but I can absolutely see why some people think it might be and I apologise! We should all just say, "dae ye hink I came up the Clyde on a bike?" instead!

Honestly, I enjoy seeing your gorgeous face. You are such a beautiful woman.

yassss

Thanks for this. I love the phrases, but honestly, I could listen to you read the dictionary all day. ;)

Goin to Scotland next week.... scared i won't be able to understand anyone. And I'm from Ireland

I remember using your budgies dead for your trousers are too short, my dad says your cats dead. The budgie phrase is shortened to just budgied like "your trousers are budgied" 😂 classic phrase. I think it went a bit out of fashion when cropped trousers came into fashion.

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Haa!

I'm afraid Jock Tamson wisna a real man, it means exactly fit ye think it dis. Also, a few Doric phrases: "Get tae Buckie" = "yeah right/no way" "Awa 'n' shite" = "don't talk rubbish/f- yourself" "It's nae my wyte!" = "it's not my fault" "G'awa min!" = "bugger off" "Nae fer siller!" = "Not happening - literally: not for silver" And, saving the best for last: "Foo's yer erse fer pleuks?" = "how are you? Literally: how is your arse for spots"

I've never heard any of these phrases as an American, though I've heard similar ones to a couple. Can't tell his arse from his elbow... our version has "can't tell his ass from a hole in the ground." And though i don't know anything about a banana boat, we have "just off the boat", meaning ignorant, as if the person has just arrived from elsewhere and doesn't know anything yet. You would think we would have a version of blowin' a hoolie, since we lead the world in tornadoes and have plenty of hurricanes as well, but I can't think of anything similar.

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Love it!

Christ! You might as well be speaking Greek! We're visiting in June. Can't wait!

Kidnapped by a gang of fairies.

Up the Clyde in a banana boat means yer talkin shit, the banana boat was the name given to the boat that run from Glasgow sewerage unit they sailed down the Clyde and dumped there treated shit in the sea , banana being the same shape as a shit lol Glasgow people used this saying a lot

Another one, which is Edinburgh slang and you don't hear these days, is when something is really good, we'd say that's barry. 😁

just want to say your extremely beautiful and i love your accent

Away wi the fairies an cuttin a boot a use that all the time lol! Cat dies, member that from school lol

Here along the German coast some people are speaking "Low German". www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/plattdeutsch.html "Dat Du min Leevsten büst" instead of "Das Du meine Liebste bist". I am not quite sure if you can compare it. Scottish sound and the way "Her Majesty" is speaking. Rely on Scottish weather ? At school they told us it never rains in Scotland. That land full of beauty and wonder raped by the British brigands. Goddamned.

Blowing a hoolie - No American connection

Love your accent from Indonesia. 😘☺️

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Aww thank you :)

In the US we say "Can't tell your ass from a hole in the ground"!

Same as you skinny malinky long legs definitely went to the pictures. Maybe cos we both from west Dumbartonshire

What's with the Freddy Krueger hand on the doorknob?

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Big nightmare on elm street fan

I’m fae Glasgow (Rangers or Celtic??) I support Rangers

We definitely do not say blowin a hoolie in the U.S. 😂

@dalyliadulyea6854

4 жыл бұрын

😂🤣I agree. If I heard someone say blowin a hoolie, I would be thinking they were talking about sexual favors with a hooligan🤣😂.

What's your favourite Scottish phrase?

@laurie4329

4 жыл бұрын

Don't be a wee clipe

@WalkWithWallace

4 жыл бұрын

"Yi ken eh" 😁

@kylesutherlxnd3039

4 жыл бұрын

@@laurie4329 Just makes me think of my old PE teacher haha

@shlibbermacshlibber4106

4 жыл бұрын

Havin a wee shogee. Basically a free ride on a cart, back of a lorry etc, or once my grannie saw a tiny snail on top of the shell of a big snail.

@Calum_S

4 жыл бұрын

"You'll have had your tea." Probably not a phrase anyone has ever said, unless they're Glaswegian poking fun at Edinburghers.

Another one....i heard at a butcher last time in glasgow... Yes, ill take 2 kilos of steak sausage. Me being from the US i had to know. So i bought some....fried it up.....it was great. Scott'ish food is grand

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

I've heard the opposite haha!

Your voice and mannerisms remind me a lot of Marseli from outlander lol

We done skinny Malinke long legs umbrella feet?

Are you from Govan I am

I learned well in here, that's ok but after 2 minutes i forget how to pronounce these phrases damnnn

Have ye got a saw hand? - have you got a sore hand? If I cut the bread too thick. Dad would say this.

Ass from elbow. LoL. We say that in southern US.

say i cant cast that right now or she don't want her powers Charles

Mine is... Thats smart as anything

Don`t tell me you don`t fancy him " hen" yer knickers are SPLOONGING!

I was taught that the "banana boat" part of "Do you think I came up the Clyde on a..." had racial undertones. NB I've edited my original comment as it seemed like I was accusing people of racism, which wasn't what I intended. I was just wanting to point out that the phrase is potentially problematic.

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Shit, is it?! I had no idea :'( I just thought the idea of someone coming up the Clyde in some sort of blow up boat was meant to be daft. Also, I assumed it was those daft blow up boats, not the ships.

@ErinsHoose

4 жыл бұрын

Okay upon research, I can totally see why it sounds racist (didn't even realise the banana boat thing was a racist insult, that's horrifying) but this phrase is regarding the old Clyde banana boat, not the others :(

@Calum_S

4 жыл бұрын

@@ErinsHoose yeah, it's not a connection that people would normally make these days as Glasgow isn't a major importing hub and also the term banana boat has changed usage over time. I think the negative connotation of the original phrasing is why some people use alternative words e.g. water biscuit.