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Originally Posted by Mavericker
Would you like to know what dads call their kids?:
Stealing Watermelons
Tumshie is also a term of endearment in the Glasgow area (come here ma wee tumshie; who's her daddy's big tumshie). |
Oh, is it? I really must visit the Glasgow area some time.
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Originally Posted by Mavericker
This must be a French element in Scotland - one of their terms of endearment translates as "My little cabbage!"
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Does it? Most people would say it means turnip. And I doubt whether most would see it as a term of endearment, either.
More by accident than design, I suspect, you have happened to hit upon something real - the French influence on many Scottish words, such as "
ashet" plates etc.