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| A Braw Guid Alairm | Fairnie, Robert | 1,498 | 1 | 0.67 | |
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... aye heard the soond looder when we opened the door tae the big bedroom press.” “Weel oor press wis backin on tae yours ... |
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| A Wee Scran o Herrin | Fairnie, Robert | 1,552 | 1 | 0.64 | |
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... the links. The first door thay chappit wis yin o thae big stane hooses wi its ain gairden an awthin an, as suin as ... |
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| Better Ower Yer Thrapple | Fairnie, Robert | 511 | 1 | 1.96 | |
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... an the singer on the tape wis still giein San Francisco big licks but wi a slower an deeper vice. He set Eddie’s pint ... |
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| Geordie Jooks an the Sand Boat | Fairnie, Robert | 1,884 | 14 | 7.43 | |
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... he cuid see they war hard wrocht diggin oot a muckle big hole juist abuin whare the sands jyned the sea bed. Bi the ... ... the sea bed. Bi the leuks o’t, it wis gaun tae be a gret big sooster. “Sae ye fund a bit, Geordie!” cried Big Rab. ... ... be a gret big sooster. “Sae ye fund a bit, Geordie!” cried Big Rab. “C’mon well! Gie’s a haund for the tide’ll be here in ... ... His wee brither Wattie wis thare wi Wee Jock, Jinky an Big Rab. They aw hid bits o wuid, like Geordie’s, that they ... ... “But listen, dae ye no think we shuid pit some yackers an big stanes roond the ootside o the dyke? It micht help tae ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 100 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,370 | 2 | 0.84 | |
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... first muckle projeck o its like in Scotland. It ettles tae big a muckle electronic ingaitherin o baith written an spoken ... ... texts haes been ingaithert, they'll be eikit thegither tae big up a muckle electronic archive. SCOTS will be a resource ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 102 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,409 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... passed it doon tae me. He also hud an elephant, Wi great big massive lugs, It sat doon in the corner, Beside his fluffy ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 103 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,634 | 1 | 0.38 | |
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... they aa end up suggestin they're named efter some local big hoose? Weel it's a richt disgrace bit the fowk wha hae had ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 106 | Fairnie, Robert | 3,978 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... wi spoken words cause it gart mony o thaim tae feel like big jessies when they haed tae speak in "polite" English. She ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 108 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,828 | 1 | 0.35 | |
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... proponed that it wad be a guid thing for the Executive tae big up a strategy on Scots an he felt that the CPG shuid tak a ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 111 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,503 | 1 | 0.40 | |
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... wey. Ae maimber pyntit oot hou important it wis tae big up ae data base o aw the Scots language teachin graith ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 114 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,652 | 1 | 0.38 | |
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... whaur there fowk that wants it." The SNP promised tae big on Mike Russell's Gaelic Language Bill that rin oot o time ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 116 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,699 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... particlar wis gey ee-catchin. This particlar poster haed a big picter o Oor Wullie on it an the wordin alangside said:- ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 117 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,258 | 1 | 0.44 | |
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... hay lying in the swathe, the kirn to kirn, an the peats to big? Glaikit giglets! Do ye think to get through the warld ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 119 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,301 | 2 | 0.87 | |
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... that rowes in the European Commission direck like tae big up a European Agency for Linguistic Diversity an Language ... ... burnt ma haun. Pit TCP oan it, hen. Granny, A've goat a big plook oan ma neb. Pit TCP oan it. Granny, ma thrapple's ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 120 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,243 | 2 | 0.89 | |
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... country the day." (Itchy Coo catalogue) Tam o Shanter's Big Night Oot is editit bi Matthew Fitt an James Robertson. ... ... hamecomin:- "The Forth Rail Brig taen seeven year tae big an wis officially opened in Mairch 1890 bi H.R.H. Prince o ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 122 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,558 | 1 | 0.39 | |
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... athoot ony reference tae thae languages is like ettlin tae big a dyke athoot ony stanes. Whit guid daes he think that ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 123 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,259 | 1 | 0.44 | |
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... ruby slippers frae The Wizard of Oz fur a freen whae wis a big fan o Judy Garland. The staff in Bletherin Skite went oot ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 124 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,538 | 1 | 0.39 | |
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... Bit the Scots cam frae Ireland, gaun back a guid while In big leather boats an hed settled Argyll. The lands aroond ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 125 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,412 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... as Gaelic speakers can an aw but thon's no the pynt.) Big up a demand bi speirin a copy for yersel. Ye can contact ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 127 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,494 | 5 | 2.00 | |
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... wis gien an aw, a copy o Matthew Fitt's Tam o Shanter's Big Night Oot an a copy o the SLD's Concise Scots Dictionar ... ... apologies an donatit a signed copy o his Tam o Shanter's Big Night Oot for Lucille. Scots Tung is braw thankfu tae ... ... side. The twa poems is cried Monarch o the Glen on the big caird an Yuletide Robin on the wee ane. In a wee ... ... wee ane. In a wee depairture frae ither ordinar years, the big caird haes the words o the sang, A Guid New Year prentit ... ... wi his unco bonny young wife tae the kintrae estate an big hoose that Vanya haes been rinnin. The wife is the ile ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 128 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,464 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... a creel on her back an the text says, "Does ma bum look big in this?" or a picter o fower men in ful heiland regalia ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 129 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,468 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... tae pey thair TV licences. This wis contered wi gret big muckle boycott campaigns that endit up wi the ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 133 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,660 | 3 | 1.13 | |
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... usual copyricht restrictions. The SCOTS projeck ettles tae big up a muckle electronic ingaitherin o baith written an ... ... Musselburgh Makar's Neuk The midges in Yarrae are as big as a sparrae An when it is put tae the test, Some that Ah ... ... up in yin bite. The midges Ah've seen hae wee beady een Big teeth an huge flappin lugs Yin that Ah saw, fought a close ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 135 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,534 | 3 | 1.18 | |
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... tae forder the notion o language diversity, an throu this, big up an appreciation, in the pupils, o the reinge o accents, ... ... o accents, dialects an languages in Scotland, pupils will big up an appreciation o the diversity o ither languages an ... ... haed reponed up tae noo. He wis determined that we shuid big on thon spirit o generosity pyntin oot that the folk o ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 141 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,380 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... Council uphauds Scotland's standin owerseas, and helps tae big a Scotland that hauds neibourschip til ither countries. ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 143 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,484 | 1 | 0.40 | |
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... I didna think ye was a wee horse, but I thocht ye was a big ass!" The chiel was perfectly dumbfoundered . Taen frae ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 145 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,668 | 2 | 0.75 | |
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... dirks in a kiltie's soack" an descrives him as bein "as big as a tenement" an wha leuked as tho he'd pit Hercules "…in ... ... the sky while shoutin efter Hercules, "Whaur ye gaun, ya big chanty? " It is easy at this time o year tae cry this a ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 146 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,397 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... be at the hert o government an that ilka depairtment shuid big the airts an culture intae thair decision makin. Coorse, ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 147 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,430 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... she stertit the adaptation "the Scots that emerged was a big surprise" tae her. Accordin tae her, it wis mair her ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 152 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,359 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... can complouter thegither tae exchynge information an big pairtnerships tae steer the forderin o regional an ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 155 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,593 | 1 | 0.39 | |
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... Rummlie Thump an his faimly. They pent glue on the Big Deid Tree tae trap unsuspeckin burds for their supper o ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 156 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,436 | 2 | 0.82 | |
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... (dodgy) hit wonders is murnin the loss o thair front man, Big Jazza, that haed juist dunched his motor intae a bus ... ... recordin o thair new album. The position micht be taen bi Big Jazza's wee brither, Danny McGlone, (played bi Tom Urie) ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 158 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,396 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... course she got the chance tae hiv a wee tête-à-tête wi the big man: "Sir Peter, Ah've settled doon jist fine here in the ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 159 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,479 | 2 | 0.81 | |
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... It is, efter aw, shared experience that helps tae big a pairsonal history as pairt o a braider social history. ... ... Bit the Scots cam frae Ireland, gaun back a guid while In big leather boats an hed settled Argyll. The lands aroond ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 161 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,701 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... Mark Strand (that politely chaise a braw, cutty poem) an big names the likes o Alan Spence, Alastair Reid, Gwyneth ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 162 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,130 | 1 | 0.47 | |
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... the best wey tae promote Scots an will wark tae big a consensus on the maist appropriate role in oor society ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 163 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,495 | 1 | 0.40 | |
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... airts. LABOUR:- Gien its diverse nature, we will wark tae big a consensus on the maist appropriate role in oor society ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 166 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,498 | 2 | 0.80 | |
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... the Makar he is. Naebody is a tabula rasa but no awbody is big eneugh tae acknowledge it. The sonnet The Inquisition o ... ... tae speir "THON CHUCKIE STANE YE TAEN - WHIT DID YE BIG?" as if the wecht o thair heritage lay heavy-like on ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 171 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,524 | 1 | 0.40 | |
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... professional associes an aw ither interestit bodies tae big up thair ain ongauns tae gie a lift tae respeck for, an ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 172 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,164 | 2 | 0.92 | |
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... to say my over-arching view of this case is what a pair of big weans you are, you and Mr Christie - him in the huff and ... ... wunner gin Sheriff Munro wad hiv cried Sheriff Wood a big wean or on the ither haund wad Sheriff Wood hiv pitten ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 174 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,357 | 4 | 1.70 | |
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... hap on a bink) an pyntin oot sichts on the wey but the Big Brither can juist see sheep, sheep an mair sheep. He'd ... ... the islands o Skye, Muck, Rhum, Eigg an – Kiltie. The Big Brither haes tae decide gin he wants tae be seen as ... ... staundart an the pawkie taigelt wire seetiations caused bi Big Jessie's deifness is wordy o ony clessic farce. The ... ... the blithe strains o the accordion played bi the character Big Jessie (a gey Scottish joke!) an the audience clappin in ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 175 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,364 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... Phil's portrait o her, "Not jist want to save up for a big Polaroid, naw?". The twa unreconstructit males still ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 176 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,409 | 3 | 1.25 | |
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... an they war baith keen tae highlicht thon on thair big day. It wis guid that they war able tae get whit they ... ... is a young lassie bidin in a tenement wi her Mammy, Daddy, big brither Patrick an wee twin sisters, Mona an Rona, an she ... ... no tae say that bad things disnae happen. They dae - in a big wey. It's hou they're haunnelt that maks the difference. ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 44 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,312 | 1 | 0.43 | |
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... fin that thae yins wis juist as bad, if no waur, nor the big yins A got the week afore an gey near ilka week afore that ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 46 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,181 | 2 | 0.92 | |
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... or river. Yacker.................a big stane atween a chuckie an a bowlder. ... ... onie kinna offeecial wey. The forgaitherin wis haudit tae big the Owerband intae a mair organized an structured kinna ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 48 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,614 | 1 | 0.38 | |
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... tae keek ower the staunin o Scots in the scuils, an tae big Scots a sickert neuk inower the curriculum insteid o haein ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 51 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,596 | 2 | 0.77 | |
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... curns. Aiblins we shuid be haein a thocht noo on hoo tae big up a mair formal infrastructure amang us aw juist in case ... ... in genral ower the hail o Scotland. It ettles an aw tae big up the ingate tae buiks athin aw the airts o Scottish ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 54 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,686 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... an font kythe in thair mercats. TESCO haes noo stertit tae big a new muckle-mercat in Musselburgh (the Honest Toun) an, ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 55 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,454 | 3 | 1.22 | |
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... The abuin Scottish Fund For The Disabled is proponin tae big up its monthly magazine, Wheels, fae A5 size tae A4 wi a ... ... content afore furthsettin. Wi the SFFTD ettlin tae big up the circulation o Wheels, fae juist ower a thoosand the ... ... cuid oniebodie get nor yin that's taen a guid twa year tae big up? Naebodie kens whit the SCCC is feart o for Brian ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 56 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,683 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... haein ti dae athoot ful-time staff or sic time as thay can big up a growthier siller-flow. Thon staff, in the shape o ... |
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