Hey Bookwrm, I would love to go to Scotland. I have Scottish ancestory. We were the Baxters' from Glasgow...I've looked up Baxter and apparently it means 'Royal Baker'. My dad said our family owned a brewery in Glasgow...of course we would!
I love the gaelic sounds. We also say fuckwit, you're doing my nut or head in, pissed as a fart, went mental, smashed. We don't say "Aye right", we say "yeah right' followed by "That'd be the day...."
How's it hangin'?.................How are you? How are things?
A sandwich short of a picnic.............nuts/crazy
ACDC.................Bi-sexual
********...............fuckwit
So many people in Australia pronounce the letter H as Haitch. It does my head in! I say Aitch, as does my whole family. My daughter went to school and argued with her English teacher about the correct pronunciation. Apparantly both ways are acceptable now. We researched it, and H pronounced as Haitch comes from an Irish dialect. And considering many of our convicts came from Ireland, that's probably why it's taken hold here....eeewwww