LL-L "How do you say ...?" 2002.04.16 (05) [E]

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From: "Colin Wilson" <lcwilson at starmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "How do you say ...?" 2002.04.16 (03) [E]

>From: Matthew McGrattan <matthew.mcgrattan at brasenose.oxford.ac.uk>

>I'd love to know what other Scot users of this list think... perhaps I
>am
>being overly dogmatic and "Oof" is acceptable in some dialects.

For the record, the Concise Scots Dictionary does list the word,
and gives the translation as "wolf". It also says that the word is local
to Aberdeenshire nowadays; but on the other hand, I live there and
I've never heard it.

If it's still used at all, it must be very localised.

Colin Wilson.

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