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5 thoughts on “The Gloaming part 1”
A bonny word – gloaming – has so much more possibility than twilight 🙂
There are lots of good Scottish-Pictish words aren’t there. When I lived in Aberdeen, and worked in the uni library there, I remember someone using a word that phonetically sounded like ‘fushous’. They said it meant something like tetchy, as in a child being naughty and disruptive. And that it was Pictish, though I’m not sure how you’d verify that.
Wow cool I had no idea you lived up there what did you think of Aberdeen? Fushous….sounds really Scottish hehe….I can’t help but hear it in my head in a Scottish accent. I didn’t know there were Pictish words that’s interesting I’m going to have a hunt around for more. The Pictish standing stones when you touch them seem to have a lot of mystical power or at least I imagine they do. The Picts’ mysterious and elusive culture are really fascinating
It was a bit bleak up there, but a whole new world to me (back in the ’70s). Big skies, windy beaches, and one year, a hot summer’s day in the middle of February, and all lectures were cancelled at the university. I also did my masters degree there – on farmers and hunter gatherers of the Congo, and all without leaving my draughty library nook with grey North Sea views. Aberdeenshire/NE Scotland has its own vernacular if I remember rightly – Doric. Some clips on YouTube.
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A bonny word – gloaming – has so much more possibility than twilight 🙂
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So bonny. 😁 Also love the word Bonny too that could be another word for another day. Thank you Tish
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There are lots of good Scottish-Pictish words aren’t there. When I lived in Aberdeen, and worked in the uni library there, I remember someone using a word that phonetically sounded like ‘fushous’. They said it meant something like tetchy, as in a child being naughty and disruptive. And that it was Pictish, though I’m not sure how you’d verify that.
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Wow cool I had no idea you lived up there what did you think of Aberdeen? Fushous….sounds really Scottish hehe….I can’t help but hear it in my head in a Scottish accent. I didn’t know there were Pictish words that’s interesting I’m going to have a hunt around for more. The Pictish standing stones when you touch them seem to have a lot of mystical power or at least I imagine they do. The Picts’ mysterious and elusive culture are really fascinating
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It was a bit bleak up there, but a whole new world to me (back in the ’70s). Big skies, windy beaches, and one year, a hot summer’s day in the middle of February, and all lectures were cancelled at the university. I also did my masters degree there – on farmers and hunter gatherers of the Congo, and all without leaving my draughty library nook with grey North Sea views. Aberdeenshire/NE Scotland has its own vernacular if I remember rightly – Doric. Some clips on YouTube.
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