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Thread #1183   Message #3189611
Posted By: GUEST,Allan Conn
17-Jul-11 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Coulter's Candy
Subject: RE: lyr/Origins: Coulter's Candy (Caulter's ?)
"Puckle" is NOT confined to the Shetlands - it's still in common use in the Abedeenshire area, and no doubt further afield too

A very common everyday word in the Scottish Borders too. Was over the border in Carlisle when I was a teenager and was buying a doner kebab. The guy asked me if I wanted chilli sauce. "a wee puckle please" I said. He looked at me in a puzzled way and replied "sorry we have no pickle just chilli sauce". I honestly had no idea at the time that the word wasn't common to England as well :-)