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"Hoots Mon" is a song written by Harry Robinson, and performed by Lord Rockingham's XI. [1] It was a number-one hit single for three weeks in 1958 on the UK Singles Chart. [2] It is based on the old Scottish folk song, "A Hundred Pipers".
Wee Cooper O'Fife" (Roud 117) is a Scottish folk song about a cooper who has "a braw new wife" who will not cook, clean, and sew in case she "spoil her comely hue". The title of the song is also a pun that plays on the name of Cupar , a town in Fife .
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
Porcelain image of John Barleycorn, c .1761. The first song to personify Barley was called Allan-a-Maut ('Alan of the malt'), a Scottish song written prior to 1568; [3]. Allan is also the subject of "Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be", a fifteenth or sixteenth century Scots poem included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and 17th century English broadsides.
British slang is English-language slang originating from and used in the United Kingdom and also used to a limited extent in Anglophone countries such as India, Malaysia, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, especially by British expatriates. It is also used in the United States to a limited extent.
Bairn is a Northern England English, Scottish English and Scots term for a child. [1] It originated in Old English as "bearn", becoming restricted to Scotland and the North of England c. 1700. [2] In Hull the r is dropped and the word Bain is used. [3]
The first historical reference to the type of events held at Highland games in Scotland was made during the time of King Malcolm III (Scottish Gaelic: Máel Coluim, c. 1031 – 13 November 1093) when he summoned men to race up Craig Choinnich overlooking Braemar with the aim of finding the fastest runner in Scotland to be his royal messenger. [7]
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