If you got a giggle or a wow from #OldWeirdScotland and would like to chuck some coppers in the hat (and are in a position to), it will always mean a lot to me 😊
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Cheers,
Jack
It's "help an undergraduate research project time"!
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was a lot of fun!
https://t.co/qWSvtTkHr3
It's "help an undergraduate research project time"!
Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was a lot of fun!
https://t.co/qWSvtTkHr3
@KMotherofcats I don't have any connection to him, but I found that he passed in 1992. He was married for 21 years. His wife Betty outlived him by 4 years. He'd no children.
I will be back and active again in some form, but just wanted to wish you all a Guid Halloween, and check that pork pies didn't feature in your evening's festivities (but if they did that's cool too).
#OldWeirdScotland
Halloween is an excellent Scottish holiday, with plenty of weird fun customs.
BUT today we need to talk about an oft-shared "tradition" that is absolutely nonsense and has zero truth behind it:
A deep dive into Scotland, Witchcraft, and Sausage Rolls (🧵)
#OldWeirdScotland
Mystery photo time!
So many of Scotland's "stock" postcards are/were sold with little or no details.
Where is this?
Who's dancin? (am askin)
When is this?
#OldWeirdScotland
📸 Roberto Matassa
Behold, he cometh with tines; and every eye shall see him, they also which pierced (but also scooped) with him.
Edinburgh Spork Company ad, 1935
#OldWeirdScotland
@cocteautriplets we had one. Honestly felt like the delorean taking off every time it rose up. We'd a Montego before that. They did feel huge (but I was also wee).
Traditional music for the Scandinavian midsummer “Schottis” dance. It's not known for sure who plays on this recording but it's likely to be accordion duo Arvid Franzen and Einar Holt recorded in the mid 1920s in New York: https://t.co/o6A9Nk6mOJ #Midsommar