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Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. [1] It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. [2] In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3]
Scottish and North English dialect. laddie A boy. lassie A girl. links Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge). pernickety From pernicky. minging literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming". plaid From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation. pony
"Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman. The Dictionary of the Scots Language gives the following definitions: Jock: (1) A generic term for a man, a male person.
The current project team includes editorial staff from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and from the Scottish National Dictionary Association. In 2021, Scottish Language Dictionaries became an SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) and changed its name to Dictionaries of the Scots Language.
Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers; Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West-Central Scots, but which shows strong influences from Irish English, its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards GSE ...
As a tune with martial affiliations Highland Laddie is still widely played by the regimental bands and/or pipes and drums of the Scottish regiments. As a traditional Scottish tune, Highland Laddie is also commonly played on the bagpipes for Scottish dances. Typically categorised as a quick march "Highland Laddie" is normally written in 2/4 time.
Scottish English (Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English ( SSE ).