Scots Tongue

Our class  have recently been reading a poem called ‘Skatin’ written by J.K Annand.  It is a Scottish poem and has a lot of unusual Scottish words.  As you can tell from the title the poem is about ice skating.  It has words like ‘tummelt’ which means tumbelled, ‘aince’ which means once and ‘wi’ which means with.  A few people in our class thought it was very difficutlt to read because of all the unusual words but overall it is a good poem. 

Another poem we have been looking at is called ‘Mince and Tattie’.

i dinna like hail  tatties, pit on my plate o mince, for when i tak my denner, I eat them baith at yince.

Sae mash and mix the tatties, Wi mince into the mashin, and sic a tasty denner, will aye be voted smashin!