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Old 3rd September 2004, 17:09
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Originally posted by bktheman
Guiser became geezer - you mean to say the English stole one of our words and b*****dised it??? How dare they.

And I thought we Scots were supposed to have corrupted the English language - silly me !!!!!!!
I have seen words like 'skive' passed off as 'Scots' though!

Pernickety is Scottish in origin, as is apparently minging.
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