LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.06.20 (07) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Lexicon"

> From: "Wim" <wkv at home.nl>
> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.06.19 (05) [E/LS]
>
> Hi
>
> More hors words..
>
> Here in salland, we use the word RRRRRR!!   To tell a horse to stop, and

I wasn't brought up with horses, so can't offer my own comments,
but Sir James Wilson in his 1926 book "The Dialects of Central
Scotland" offers the following calls to horses:

"Stop": woa!, staun! or set!

"Go on": chick! or jee-up!

"Come to the left": hee!

"Go to the right": woaback!, huback! or huproond!

"Go back": back!

"Move to the side": bootower! or aboot!

"Come": cope!

"Woa" and "Jee-up" were certainly the calls we used when "playing
horses" as children.

There's a legacy to the era of horse-riding in our locality in the
name of "Hadfast Brae" - so called because it's so steep it was
necessary to "haud fast" (hold tight) when riding down it
("brae" = hillside).

Wilson also lists the following words for telling different
animals to "come":

Cows: pwray, pwroo, pwrooaa or pwray lady (though note that in
      "Betty's Trip tae Edinbury" on ScotsteXt Betty addresses
       a cow with, "Kosh-kosh, Lady".

Pigs: gissay, grumphie or hiskay.

Calves: pree-caufie.

Hens: chookie or tick-tick.

Chickens: chuckie.

Cat: cheetie-pussy  (see on ScotsteXt the nursery rhyme
                     "Cheetie-Poussie Cattie-O").

Rabbits:  maap.

Pigeons: pud.

Dogs: iskay. Also "stee" = "go away".

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
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                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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