SCOTCH ENGLISH.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1714, 1 July 1874, Page 2

SCOTCH ENGLISH.

They apeak in riddles north beyond the Tweed. The plain, pure English they can deftly reed; Yet when without the book they come to epeak, " Their lingo seems half English and half Greek. Their jaws are chafts; their hands, when closed, are neives; Their bread's not out in slices, but in shaves; Their armpits are their oxters; palms their luifs; Their men are chields; their timid fools are cuifs; . ' Their lads are callants; and their women kimmers; Q-ood lasses denty queans; and bad.ones limmera. They thele when they endure; Mid scart when they -scratch j And when they giro a sampl* it's a swatch. Scolding is flittiu'; and a long palaver : Is nothing but a blether or a haver. This room they call the butt and that the ben; And what they do not know they dinna ken. On keen cold days they say the wind blaws snell; Far"yes" say "im'ph'm," which I try to •pell. ' '.I To prig's to plead, beat down a thine in cost; ;-. To coff's to purchase, and a cooky a heast; To crack is to convene; tht ttWs^tke sky; And bairns are said to greet when cry. • J? When lost, folk never ask the way thej want — They spier the gate; and when they yawn they gant. » . Beetle with them is tlock; a flame's a tare; Their straw is strae; chaff ohuffj and hollow hbwe. \ A pickle means a few; muckle is big; * And a piece of crockery ware is ca)l*l a pie. —Exchange ■ t 1"