A list of 82 words by sionnach.
- yarkwas added by sionnach and appears on 10 lists
- wallageouswas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- updorrockwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- snaggerelwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- slawpiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- purlicuewas added by sionnach and appears on 32 lists
- puslicwas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- liddisdale drowwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- jawtherswas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- grandgorewas added by sionnach and appears on 6 lists
- gowdspinkwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- gillravagewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- garraiverywas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- fulziewas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- forjeskitwas added by sionnach and appears on 6 lists
- fodgelwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- flamfoowas added by sionnach and appears on 5 lists
- fidgin'-fainwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- fendywas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- fairdywas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- ewe-buchtwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- eastie-wastiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- sproagewas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- splutewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- spartlewas added by sionnach and appears on 5 lists
- snoovewas added by sionnach and appears on 5 lists
- smookwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- smoltwas added by sionnach and appears on 13 lists
- smitchwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- smirtlewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- smirlwas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- smirdwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- smiddlewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- whigmaleerieswas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- whistle binkiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- plotcockwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- philabegwas added by sionnach and appears on 4 lists
- wanchanciewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- scunnerwas added by sionnach and appears on 17 lists
- wooer-babwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- dyke-louperwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- skelpie-limmerwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- waesuckwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- whaup-nebbitwas added by sionnach and appears on 4 lists
- wowfwas added by sionnach and appears on 5 lists
- roxiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- murgulliewas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- winklotwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- powsoudiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- muslin-kailwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- gabbockwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- smervywas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- heckie-burniewas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- brulziewas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- dowp-skelperwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- queer cuffinwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- nevermaswas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- outlerswas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- meggy monyfeetwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- leglinwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- kain-bairnswas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- hummel-doddiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- how-towdieswas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- hadden and dungwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- gyre-carlinewas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- gruntle-thrawnwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- forfoughtenwas added by sionnach and appears on 7 lists
- foreanentwas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- toothillswas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- umbersorrowwas added by sionnach and appears on 7 lists
- ultimus eekibuswas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- tillie-soulwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- todlaurelwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- tittie-billiewas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- tongue-ferdywas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- tappit-henwas added by sionnach and appears on 4 lists
- tinkle-sweetiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- buckle beggarwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- blaw-i'-my-lugwas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- bubbly-jockwas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- collie-shangiewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- cockernoniewas added by sionnach and appears on 5 lists
sionnach commented on the list scotch-on-the-rocks
The English bristles with consonants. The Scotch is as spangled with vowels as a meadow with daisies in the month of May*. English, though perhaps the most muscular and copious language in the world, is harsh and sibilant; while the Scotch, with its beautiful terminational diminutives, is almost as soft as the Italian. English songs, like those of Moore and Campbell,1 however excellent they may be as poetical compositions, are, for these reasons, not so available for musical purposes as the songs of Scotland. An Englishman, if he sings of a "pretty little girl," uses words deficient in euphony, and suggests comedy rather than sentiment; but when a Scotsman sings of a "bonnie wee lassie," he employs words that are much softer than their English equivalents, express a tenderer and more romantic idea, and are infinitely better adapted to the art of the composer and the larynx of the singer. And the phrase is but a sample of many thousands of words that make the Scottish language more musical than its English sister.
*: or, as one site puts it, more memorably -
The English bristles with ooziaonaDts. The Scotch is as spangled with Towels as a meadow with daisies in the month of May.
April 24, 2009
madmouth commented on the list scotch-on-the-rocks
Actually, English has plenty of vowels (14 or so), way more than many languages considered 'musical' and 'euphonious'. In fact, what it bristles with are complex codas, whereas Scotch is spangled with open syllables (which are, it is true, indispensable to the spirit of song).
And Towels.
April 27, 2009
reesetee commented on the list scotch-on-the-rocks
Question: My Scottish-American friends threaten with bodily harm anyone who dares call their kin (or the language) "Scotch" rather than "Scottish." I realize this list is taken from Mackay, but is it acceptable in other parts to use "Scotch" this way?
Just askin'.
Signed, an American of Italian heritage
June 11, 2009
qroqqa commented on the list scotch-on-the-rocks
'Scotch' is never used in modern Britain for anything but the whisky. It never lived down Bums's obsessive concentration on the uterary history of the unguage.
June 11, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the list scotch-on-the-rocks
*favorited*
January 26, 2011