The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77536   Message #1383331
Posted By: John MacKenzie
20-Jan-05 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: BS: Spake Norn Iron
Subject: RE: BS: Spake Norn Iron
We in Scotland historically share lots of dialect words with Norn Iron, like 'press' for cupboard for instance. However I was reading a site the other day where a Scots lady was delighting in the discovery that the Norwegian for a vacuum cleaner is 'stoorsooker' which tranlates directly into Scots dialect.
BTW a 'clipe' or 'clype' when I was a kid was a carrier of tales, i.e. 'a grass'.
Giok