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SANGSCHAW 2021
ANNUAL SCOTS WRITING COMPETITION
Winners 2021
Poesie
1st Prize an Hugh MacDiarmid Tassie: Alan Millar, Wee weaver birdie Jynt rinners-up: Rosa Alba Macdonald, Trettind Day, George T. Watt, ‘Stille Nacht’ Ruisit: W.S. Milne, The Desolate Shore; George T. Watt, Scrievit after the storming o Capitol Hill …; Susan Miller, Yavins Yella; Donald Adamson, Learin the Leid
Cutty Tales
1st Prize an Robert McLellan Tassie: Craig Aitchison, Ower the Mairch Rinner-up: Craig Aitchison, The Set Texts Ruisit: Tony Beekman, Aye, Cooncillor; Hamish Scott, Warks; Hamish Scott, The Talesman; George T. Watt, Fingerprents; Rosa Alba Macdonald, Gaia’s Knicht; Charles P. Connor, Dillemae
Owersettins
1st Prize an John MacPhail Law Tassie: Derrick McClure, A Blaik Wife Waiments her Guidman Rinner-up: Donald Adamson, Althild Ruisit: Derrick McClure, Balou in a Fremmit Kintra; Brian Holton, Wee Words; Brian Holton, The Hairst Wind; George T. Watt, The Buik o Sinera; Robert Maxwell Duncan, Prayer to Aphrodite; A. C. Clarke, Ane Fremmit Chiel; Hugh Pyper, Buried Alive; Hugh Pyper, The Book of Ecclesiastes; Jerry Randalls, Iago’s Soliloquy
Mony thanks to aabody for takin pairt in the competeition.
2022 the catogaries are
Original Poesie -
Owersettins (copy o original source please)
an Cutty Tale
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Ahint – behind Airn – iron
Argie-bargie – dispute Auld – old
Auld Nick – Satan Awfy – awful, awfully
Ayeweys – always
Beelin – boiling (with suppressed anger) Bizzum – cheeky or ill-behaved woman
Blether – one who talks nonsense Bletheranskite – (same but more emphatic)
Boke – retch (gie ye the boke – make you sick) Brattle – uproar
Braw – fine, handsome (in dress or appearance) Breeks – trousers
Breenge – rush, charge Byde – live
Chancy – uncertain Clarty – dirty
Clout – bash Clype – tell tales
Crabbit – bad-tempered Cuddy – horse, (fig.) fool
Daft – foolish Dauner – wander
Deid – dead Deil – devil
Deive – deafen, exhaust Deleerit – crazy
Dominie – schoolmaster Doo – dove
Douce – decorous Dozent – sleepy
Drap – drop Dug – dog
Dwamm – daydream
Eejit – idiot Een – eyes
Erse – arse Ettle – try
Fankle – tangle, mix-up Fash – annoy, give trouble to
Feart – frightened Fecht – fight
Flee – fly Flit – move house
Funn – find
Fyke – ferret (out)
Gaberlunzie – beggar Gallus – brash, bold
Guan – going Gie – give
Gigot – leg of mutton Gled-rags – fancy clothes
Gonny – going to Gowd – gold
Gowp – throb Grunzie – snout
Guddle – state of confusion
Hale – whole Haly – holy
Hansell – gift Haud – hold
Havers – nonsense Herm – harm
Hertbrek – heartbreak Het-up – agitated
Houghmagandie – fornication Hunner – hundred
Huntigowk – April Fool joke Hure – whore
Ilka – each, every
Jackanory – story Jaggy – prickly
Jalouse – deduce Jildy - hurry
Jingbang – the entirety Ken – know
Kid-oan – joke Kinna – kind of
Lowp – jump Lug – ear
Luif – palm, open hand Maun – must
Mense – sense, wisdom Merrit – married
Micht – might Muckle – big; much
Neb – nose; nosey person Neebor – neighbour
Pair – poor Paw – Dad
Pinkie – little finger Plooky – pimply
Ploy – trick, stratagem Press – cupboard
Pyat – magpie Rammy – noisy disturbance
Rift – belch
Scunner – disgust, or a disgusting thing or person Shair – sure
Sic – such Skelp – smack
Skliff – puny person Slaister – mess
Smeddum – spirit, force of character Smouty – small and unimpressive
Snirkle – snigger Soor – sour
Sowell – soul (in exclamation “The sowell!” = “poor soul!” Staun – stand
Sumph – useless person Swaree – evening visit
Swick – trick, cheat
Thocht – thought Thole – endure
Thrawn – stubborn Tink – tinker, disreputable person
Tyke – cur Wean – child
Wheesht – hush (haud yir wheesht – be quiet) Wid – wood
Widnae – wouldn’t Yatter – chatter, babble
Yin – one Yokit – bonded