It never stops, Dominic. Our respective parents still refer to my wife and myself as “the kids,” despite the fact that we’re both 33 and expecting a baby of our own.
But getting back to Scotland, what about “Ach!”? Any of you lads of Scottish descent ever catch yourself loosing a few of those at opportune moments?
Dittoing on the north of England sounding ‘feller-me-lad’.
Lad and Lass are terms which are used fairly commonly in parts of Scotland but it depends on the context. If a mate in Dundee refers to someone’s lad then I know it’s a boyfriend. If my cousin in Edinburgh talks about someone’s laddie then they are speaking about a child. That said, we speak English so some peeps may never use the word.
I only use ‘Ach’ if I’m pissed off about something.
“Laddie” and “Lassie” are used commonly to refer to children, all over I think, often with “wee” added before. I don’t know about Dundonians though, they’re a strange lot - possibly the only people to eschew consonants atogether “I ate it all” becomimg “a e’ i a’”.
Early settlers in this area came mostly from Scotland, hence we have towns named Renfrew, Arnprior, Perth, Calabogie, etc.
People in the Ottawa valley don’t have sons or daughters; they have “young lads” and “young ladies.” No kidding. People will say things like “I have to take my young lad to hockey tonight.”
My grandmother, a child of the north shore of Lake Eire and a descendant of the Highland Clearances, called a child “a wee braw laddie / lassie.” Her unfortunate grandson was called “the wee Jamie.” The old woman also always rememberer Queen Victoria’s birthday.
It’s to let the audience know that the Aussie with the wierd accent is really playing a Brit.
TBH the worst use of bloody was in an episode of B5 when Marcus the git, I mean ranger, came out with “that’s a bloody big lot of ships”. By Og I wished death on him and the writer of that line.
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I mean any true Englishman would simply have said “Fuck ME!”