Rows an Ructions

If you are listening to a disturbance or quarrel. Yer hearin 


Rows an Ructions

Otherwise known as a nurration (also noration)




Note: in typical understatement the 1798 rebellion has often been referred to as 'the ruction'

Leisure

It's no aftin I pit doon onaythin that's no Ulster-Scots. But sum days an idea, oor a thocht, oor a poem jist rises oot o' yer heid tae fit tha day.

William Henry Davis wus a Welsh poet, fae a poor backgrun, an like monnies an Ulster man he made his wae tae America. Nearly aa o his poems ir aboot nature, oor lifes hardships, oor his ain adventures trampin aroon America. But this yin iz mae favourite.

Leisure

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?

No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies 1871 - 1940

Opposite

Yin o tha maist handy Ulster-Scots wurds iz fornenst. If simthin iz opposite ye, it's fornenst ye. If simthin iz on tha far side o tha room it's,

Far fornenst ye.

Clocherin

If yer gan tae tak a fit o 'coughing' dinnae dae it near an Ulster-Scot. Thur's mere hamely wurds tae describe sum poor cratter clearing his throat thon in onay ither language I hae herd tell o.
Fur thur proper effect ye need tae, at least, dibble thum up.

Look at thon cratter splooterin an berkin.

Thur's nae need fur aa thon craitlin an Kaehaein.

Ye shud o herd him peuchin an clocherin.

Wud ye listen tae thon bloicherin an blooterin.

Scraigh

Daybreak
Tha scraigh (also scraich) o dawn


Sunset (daylight going)
Dailygan

Thrie sheets tae tha wun

Thur's a brave wheen o Ulster-Scots sayin's devoted tae tha subject o intoxication. I cannae fur tha life o mae think why.

I redd yin racently that I hadnae heerd in a lang time. Tha poor cratter wus sae drunk,

He wus hairdly able tae bite his fing'r.

Slippery

Whun sumthin iz slidey or faas aff anither thing gye easy. It's like,

Snaw (snow) aff a dyke