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Och, haud yir wheest, man!

Thanks, Jack, I think I was avoiding Wiki because I was feert, feert I'd get sucked into some awfie piece o' nonsense - and see much mair than Ah'd ever want to ken. I'll take a daunder oor tae Wikiland this efternin.

😂 I asked for that

Praise to you both - brilliant.

Brendan, nae tother a ba'.* It's aye guid tae gie some auld words an airing.

* Perhaps too niche?

Not too niche at all and I'm delighted these beautiful words and phrases are getting an airing. It's about time...

In the words of the inimitable Rab C Nesbitt: "So, life has meaning - except for viewers in Scotland"

Brendan, glad you're finding these words beautiful. The tricky part for me is the spelling - I know lots of (Scottish) words very well, but have only ever heard them, not seen them written down. My little Scottish dictionary is far too wee to be useful.

Try the online Dictionars O The Scots Leid at dsl.ac.uk

It demonstrates that Scots spelling is very variable. For example, there are 16 different spellings of ”wheesht”.

Thanks, Jack. I had a quick look and there definitely seemed some interesting stuff. It was good to distract me from my irritation with a Private Eye clue....
Base weakness of speaker (5)

No, no, no.... though when this one crops up (it's a pretty hackneyed clue) there are always plenty of people who say that's how they pronounce the word. I always think 'Good for you, what about the millions of others - all living in Britain - who don't and have to think hard to contrive to make them sound alike?'

I've bookmarked the dictionary so hopefully I'll be able to join in our next blether (another one Ginge taught me).

Malone @5

By way of showing solidarity with your joy of silence, I thought you might enjoy this old classic - bit of a cliche, I know, but still...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWVUp12XPpU