“Yah”? Whats that?
“yes” said with a posh accent 
Some of us chose to go to Edinburgh, instead of geriatric English institutions that didn’t offer good undergraduate linguistics courses …
(Mind you, I’m hardly upper class … descended from a long line of Liverpool dockers, me.)
Oi! ::mock outrage:: 
Some others chose to go there after four years at Cambridge, and wanting a change. Oh, and to make things damned inconvenient for their girlfriends!
But seriously, Edinburgh is beautiful, and you couldn’t have made a better choice. Oh, and the pubs don’t close whilst 3am. However, due to wierd laws, the takeaways do close before the pubs do. This leads to clandestine fish and chip buying occuring at bus stops…
The English students in Edinburgh are called “Yahs”, due to their inability to pronounce the word correctly. (Scouse dockers may well earn an exception though!)
So I guess Miss Magic8ball will be a “Yep”, or something.
Don’t worry, the natives are friendly and Edinburgh is lovely.
Miss Magic8ball – I just found a Canadian 10 cents coin in my change masquerading as a UK 5 pence coin. It’s very nearly the same size but is a little thinner, and is apparently only worth 4.43 pence.
Irvine Welsh uses loads of Scottish rhyming slang in his books; my favourite is “Lee Van” for deaf (Lee Van Cleef = deef). Cockneys have the reputation for originating rhyming slang, but I’m pretty sure that in other cities it goes back to at least before the war, if not the 19th century. For example “China” has been used in Glasgow for decades to mean “friend” (China plate = mate).
Nah. I’l be a “shrugging” students. I’m very monosylabic at times when I don’t have a keyboard to convey my words for me. Unless I’ve got a lot of sugar in my system, I tend to not talk.
theres 5p in a bob, twenty bob in a sov, 5 sovs in a lady (godiva) 2 ladies in a cockle, two and a half cockles ina pony, two ponies in a mcgarret (or bullseye) two mcgarrets in a ton, three tons in a carpet, 5 tons in a monkey, two monkeys in a bag of sand, aka a long) and two bags in an archer.
That should explain it. (these are all real and in common use in my manor (SW Lahndahn).
Bob? Lady?Cockle?Pony? monkies
Jesus, why don’t you just call them “pounds and shillings” like they really are?
My god. This is going to be really hard… all this slang… brain is overloading…
The only fools and horses theme would not sound right with ‘pony’ replaced with ‘one thousand pounds’
(I don’t know the words myself. Any dopers care to fill us in)
Oh, stop confusing the poor Miss Magic Ball or she might change her mind and stay at home. Yes, Edinburgh is very pretty, though I suspect after only a short time, you might get bored with tourists everywhere. Oh, and be prepared to walk up and down lots of hills.
You could * have a look at http://www.scotland.com/forums/ for any other questions you have - there are a lot of North Americansthere but still a few Scots hanging on*.
(Yes, Pedantic Celyn intends that to mean U.S.A and Canada.)
Don’t worry about the mad rhyming slang - I think most of the examples quoted do belong in London. Oopps, having said that I do recall that “Trainspotting” (and anything else by Irvine Welsh) had words and phrases I had never seen before. 
Hmm
Just keep planning and looking forward to it - you will like it.
Oh, stop confusing the poor Miss Magic Ball or she might change her mind and stay at home. Yes, Edinburgh is very pretty, though I suspect after only a short time, you might get bored with tourists everywhere. Oh, and be prepared to walk up and down lots of hills.
You could * have a look at Scotland Travel Guide 2021 - Scotland.com for any other questions you have - there are a lot of North Americansthere but still a few Scots hanging on*.
(Yes, Pedantic Celyn intends that to mean U.S.A and Canada.)
Don’t worry about the mad rhyming slang - I think most of the examples quoted do belong in London. Oopps, having said that I do recall that “Trainspotting” (and anything else by Irvine Welsh) had words and phrases I had never seen before.
Hmm
Just keep planning and looking forward to it - you will like it.
HA! nearly forgot what I intended to post - currency conversion site: http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic
Nah… I won’t get scared away… I want to get away from here too much.
I think I’l just walk around with my fingers in my ears and use a debit card… make things easier.
Its £25 where i am. 
A colleague has just told me the reason that they’re called ponys and monkeys is that the indian 25 and 500 rupee notes during the raj had these animals on.
I will have to buy him a Brittney (actually my generation call Brittneys Don Revies). Or I may just bung him a tosheroon (half crown)
Btw - I have tried to look over the thread again and I am not sure if pMiss Magic Ball said she was going to Edinbrugh, or if it somehow became assumed.
(And I am sorry about the double post before)
So, could someone clarify for this sleepy Celyn whether Edinburugh is the definitie choice, or whether St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen etc are still under consideration.
Good point. This probably ought to come from the OP, but a quick review indicates that the OP originally mentioned University in Scotland, Steve Wright mentioned that that was where he’d been to university, Miss Magic8ball asked him which one, he said Edinburgh and it all snowballed from there.
We ought to mention that there are other excellent universities in Scotland, and the one to choose will depend on the preferred course. For example, St. Andrews and Glasgow were both founded before any others in the UK apart from the Oxbridge pair.
Well, there’s at least one other University in Edinburgh, you know. I’ve nothing against Heriot-Watt. (And I wouldn’t be surprised if, for example, Napier College hadn’t jumped on the bandwagon and become a University since I last saw the place.)
LOL , Yes Napier is now called Napier University. I think I am getting old - it’s just too much trouble to keep up with the name changes - like Windscale, Sellafield, College of Technology/Polytechnic/University.