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I have an app for students, Scots ABC. It has a random word generator, from which I just learned the word “oorie.”

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:20 (five months ago) link

Doesn’t have any of the example sentences though, for one thing.

― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 26 November 2023 04:32 (five months ago) link

auk (auk and style)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:42 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Turns out "auk and style" doesn't exist as a saying at all, I'd heard "dressed in auk and style" but maybe it was really "dressing up in style" or something. I do know of one song where I'd misheard the latter for the former, but I'm sure my hearing predates it.

Unless, y'know, you know?

― Mark G, Sunday, 26 November 2023 09:50 (five months ago) link

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