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If you got a giggle or a wow from #OldWeirdScotland and would like to chuck some coppers in the hat (and are in a position to), it will always mean a lot to me 😊 ko-fi.com/weirdscotland Cheers, Jack
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It's "help an undergraduate research project time"! Siân is researching how well Scottish people and Scots speakers are understood. Listen to some audio clips and see how well you fare. Took me less than 10mins and it was a lot of fun! forms.gle/wUJBQquieSt2h4BL8

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I will be back and active again in some form, but just wanted to wish you all a Guid Halloween, and check that pork pies didn't feature in your evening's festivities (but if they did that's cool too). #OldWeirdScotland
Halloween is an excellent Scottish holiday, with plenty of weird fun customs. BUT today we need to talk about an oft-shared "tradition" that is absolutely nonsense and has zero truth behind it: A deep dive into Scotland, Witchcraft, and Sausage Rolls (🧵) #OldWeirdScotland
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Mystery photo time! So many of Scotland's "stock" postcards are/were sold with little or no details. Where is this? Who's dancin? (am askin) When is this? #OldWeirdScotland šŸ“ø Roberto Matassa
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No word from @WeirdScotland, but I’m celebrating #PieMonday anyway. Lamb and onion on the way!
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Anxiously checking @WeirdScotland’s feed like
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Behold, he cometh with tines; and every eye shall see him, they also which pierced (but also scooped) with him. Edinburgh Spork Company ad, 1935 #OldWeirdScotland
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More mystery images: Almost certainly in Scotland but does anyone recognise where? #OldWeirdScotland
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Where is this? No other clues bar those you can see in the pic, unfortunately. Dundee photographer. A real mystery. #OldWeirdScotland
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Traditional music for the Scandinavian midsummer ā€œSchottisā€ dance. It's not known for sure who plays on this recording but it's likely to be accordion duo Arvid Franzen and Einar Holt recorded in the mid 1920s in New York: publicdomainreview.org/colle… #Midsommar
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Shaqiri, when the Scottish defence fell
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A' THING EIKS QUO THE WRAN QUHEN SCHE PIST IN THE SIE (Everything adds up, said the wren when she pissed in the sea) Early 17th Century proverb #OldWeirdProverbs #OldWeirdScotland #Scots
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After rising to "National Hero" status following the end of the Siege of Mafeking in May 1900, Robert Baden-Powell had a rash of babies named for him. The unfortunate ones born in Scotland were forever nicknamed "Pudden-Bowl" bairns. #OldWeirdScotland
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I bought a book on ebay which was described as "unfortunately, very marked on inside front page". Turns out the "marks" were made in 1945 by some Scots of renown, all members of @Saltire_Society. Some I can decipher, some I can't. Any input welcomed! #OldWeirdScotland 1/n
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Someone signed with a symbol (like Prince?) Anyone have any ideas what this could be?
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I'd also like to find out who Catherine Hastie was and why they were gifted the book in 1945! Obviously a going away present, but it would be nice to find out the story.
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