Musings of a Dissolute Wastrel by JPV Oliver, Gent

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How to Speak Scots Like a Native

How to Speak Scots Like a Native

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The small woolen ball atop the Balmoral, Glengarry and Tam ‘o Shanter caps is called a toorie. From 1812, the town of Troon was the terminus of a horse-drawn railway connecting it to the Duke's coal mines around Kilmarnock which was the Oliver ancestral home. The railway not licensed for passengers, a technicality evaded by weighing those wishing to travel and charging them freight rates. As my Uncle Angus liked to say, “We are a practical people”. “Ya numpty” describes a dimwitted person. Now book your trip.

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