Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Scots in New Zealand : A Guide

If you are a Scot who is coming to New Zealand to live, or even for a holiday, you might like this random little guide to some things that you might find when you get here...

Language Quirks.
(Using the Scotland accent as a baseline comparison, as long as you don't roll the 'R')

How things sound....
  • Kah = A Motor Vehicle
  • Folk = Usually used with a knife
  • Noife = Usually used with a fork
  • Naw-oo = To answer in the negative
  • Yese = To answer in the affirmative
  • Patty = A social gathering
  • Sher = Something you use in the morning to get clean
  • Texas = What you must pay to the government
  • FS = What you pay to get on a plane
  • Eh-Points = What you earn as a frequent flyer
  • Choi-nah = An Asian country
  • Pooh-piss = The object toward which one strives or for which something exists
  • Gools = Young females
  • Fleg = The wavy thing than represents a nation.
  • Grend-Foi-null. = the final game of a Sporting competition.
  • Bee = An Alcoholic beverage
  • Woking = Not quite as fast as running
  • Wooled = Our planet
  • Ooth = The name of our planet
  • Spote = Organised physical activity
  • Dota = Female offspring
  • Mooda = To kill someone
  • Nooses = Valued employees in hospitals
  • Broi-berry = A crime
  • Oy = to see with
  • Oy = Myself
  • Stendids = Everyone should have them
  • Hezid = Danger
  • Ba = A public house
  • Lie-buh = NZ political party
  • Nesha-null = NZ political party
  • Pooh-sins = More than one human
  • Foost = better than 2nd
  • Woe-ta = A clear drinking fluid
  • Boke = Something you read
  • Peen = Something you write with
  • Teen Munuts = A unit of time, (minutes) one more than 9
  • Seventeen = $7.10
  • Deet = When you owe someone money
  • Tomb = A part of the school year
  • Palli-mint = Where the government meets
  • Kroist = Our Lord
  • Tramah = Trauma
  • Low-ah = Law
  • Voodict = Something the jury should arrive at
  • Cote = A legal venue
  • Toking = Expressing yourself orally
  • Quota = A fraction
  • Pooh-voot = A person who displays an unhealthy sexual desire over someone
  • Kroish = A place to send your kids while you are working
  • Fush = Sea creature
  • Oakland = New Zealand's largest city
  • Kroist-Chooch = The south islands largest city
  • Sand = Something you hear
  • Unglund = The nation south of Scotland
  • Meericas-cap = A huge sailing event (which no one else in the world watches)
  • Hole = A large room
  • Skol = Where kids go to learn
  • Looning = Something you should be doing at school
  • Booth-Die = Celebration of the day you were born
  • Wook = What you do to earn your wages
  • Moaning = The earliest part of the day
  • Fearie = A vessel used for car and passenger transport
  • Fearie = A magical flying creature
  • O-strall-yah = The nation to the west of NZ
How things differ...
  • Bought = Brought
  • Brought = Bought
  • Furtherest = Furthest
  • Cellphone = Mobile phone
  • Chips = Crisps
  • Chips = Chips
  • Soccah = Football
  • Station-Wagon = Estate car
  • Jug = Kettle
  • Flog = Steal
  • Chook (sounds like: choke) - Chicken
  • Shiela's = Women
  • Rort = Fraud

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