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Quote from: Hertsblue on 23 February 2015, 10:47:34 AM
Hi Vladd - you're no relation to that Transylvanian chap, are you?

Over 12 hours of restraint,  this must be a serious forum 

Or is it the new rules imposed by the Dark Lord

Hello and welcome Vlad.

Oddly enough I'm a red card carrying member of the Aberdeen FC supporters club.......despite being from Sussex, as English as they come, never even been to Aberdeen and a rugby fan (what is this fascination with a round ball). Long story but always fun when they ring every year to try to sell me a season ticket.

Welcome to the madhouse

Fit Like is more of a Fifer thingy, just across the water from me in Boanie Dundee (Sunshine Capital of Scotland).

Ye ken fit they say aboot Fifers dunt ye? Shoart Aerms and deep pockets!

Quote from: GordonY on 24 February 2015, 07:51:00 AM
Fit Like is more of a Fifer thingy, just across the water from me in Boanie Dundee (Sunshine Capital of Scotland).

Ye ken fit they say aboot Fifers dunt ye? Shoart Aerms and deep pockets!

Why do Scots say how instead of why?

Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 08:06:18 AM
Why do Scots say how instead of why?

Ah dinnae unnerstan' tha'

Quote from: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 10:14:31 AM
Ah dinnae unnerstan' tha'

As in:

I'm not going out tonight.
How no?  (Why not).

Never understood where that comes form???

Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 10:19:48 AM

Never understood where that comes form???

Scotland?

Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 10:19:48 AM
Never understood where that comes form???

How no?

Quote from: GordonY on 24 February 2015, 07:51:00 AM
Fit Like is more of a Fifer thingy, just across the water from me in Boanie Dundee (Sunshine Capital of Scotland).

Ye ken fit they say aboot Fifers dunt ye? Shoart Aerms and deep pockets!

I've only ever heard "fit like" said seriously by Aberdonians. Often "Fit like loon?" (or "Fit like quine?" to a woman)

As a Fifer who lived in Yorkshire for four years I'd say the two have much in common:

    "Hear all, see all, say nowt! Eat all, drink all, pay nowt!"

Scottish dialects are hard to understand? Aye, right! Naw they're no!

Quote from: Westmarcher on 24 February 2015, 10:33:57 AM
Scotland?

Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 10:58:09 AM
How no?

No-one can bloody explain it though

Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:31:51 AM
No-one can bloody explain it though

What's to explain? It's what's said. It's no more or less sensible than the assemblage of sounds that make up "why not?" or "pourquois pas?"

Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 11:39:36 AM
What's to explain? It's what's said. It's no more or less sensible than the assemblage of sounds that make up "why not?" or "pourquois pas?"

Don't agree; the dialect uses two words, which Scottish people otherwise use accurately, in an inaccurate way.

That makes it worthy of an explanation.  I take your point though that such an explanation may be lost in time

Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:45:45 AM
Don't agree; the dialect uses two words, which Scottish people otherwise use accurately, in an inaccurate way.

That makes it worthy of an explanation.  I take your point though that such an explanation may be lost in time

You make a massive assumption and generalisation that all Scots speak or use the same dialect.  That is far from the case, just as it is in the rest of the UK; e.g. where I hail from 'How no?' isn't used, rather 'Whit wye no?'

Quote from: getagrip on 24 February 2015, 11:45:45 AM
Don't agree; the dialect uses two words, which Scottish people otherwise use accurately, in an inaccurate way.

... and there's your problem

"Scottish people" speak several different dialects and those (mainly those from the West Coast/ Glasgow) who say "how?" or "how no?" will use that form all or most of the time.

Some of us may use the term for effect, of course.

Particularly when talking to Weegies or English people

Quote from: SV52 on 24 February 2015, 11:54:55 AM
You make a massive assumption and generalisation that all Scots speak or use the same dialect.  That is far from the case, just as it is in the rest of the UK; e.g. where I hail from 'How no?' isn't used, rather 'Whit wye no?'

Yeah, did come across like that.

Some of the Scots I've met say it and I'm curious as to why?

I wish someone would give me a hint how to let my Glaswegian colleague know that I have no @#%$% interest in metaphysics, Theosophy, the international mega-industrial-military conspiracy, or Chinese herbalism. Plain statement doesn't have any effect, and satire passes unnoticed by that deadly Scottish earnestness.
I don't want to offend him, but if I have to ride the coach back to town once more with a near-unintelligible Celt gibbering in my ear about how much more sense the world will make to me when I give up logic, I may have a Haggicide on my conscience.

Quote from: Ithoriel on 24 February 2015, 11:58:08 AM
... and there's your problem

"Scottish people" speak several different dialects and those (mainly those from the West Coast/ Glasgow) who say "how?" or "how no?" will use that form all or most of the time.

Some of us may use the term for effect, of course.

Particularly when talking to Weegies or English people

Yeah, get it completely but it's a very strange grammatical construct.