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Glaswegian and Scottish Dictionary :
Words and Translations into English.
Glaswegian or Scottish Word:
Picts
English Meaning :
The Picts were a confederation of tribes living in what was later to become eastern and northern Scotland from before the Roman conquest of Britain until the 10th century. They lived to the north of the Forth and Clyde rivers, and spoke the extinct Pictish language, thought to have been related to the Brythonic languages spoken by the Britons to the south.
Many place names in Scotland are derived from those Pictish times: Pitlochry Pitmedden, Pittodrie etc Example
/ Translation of example:
Picts Rule
The Picts ruled for hundreds o’ years,
But sae soon they were forgotten,
A lot o’ people don’t give a damn,
But Ah think it’s blinkin’ rotten.
Yet they’re never quite oot ma mind,
And never oot ma soul,
For a think o’ them when e’er I go,
Tae Pitlochry, Pitcur or Pit-on-Mair-Coal.
[From No' Rabbie Burns by Stuart McLean]
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