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Albert Kirk Jr

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Scriever, Gomerel. Scriever an Furthsetter o pish watter: a scots zine. A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland #ScottishIndependence #Music #Zines #ScottishZines

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · Jan 14

A'm gaun back intae editin ma nuvel that A feenisht scrievin in 2020. A wrut it in Sudron an syne in 2022 A owerset it intae Scots. Av puntit it aboot tae nae joy, but A'm siccar thare somethin aboot it.

It is 140,000 wirds, sae aiblins cuttin that doon is on the cairds 😀

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2h

This is our dog Nutmeg.

She will be 12 this month. She lost her eyesight gradually a couple of years ago. We knew she had cataracts from her milky eyes, but one day we realised they had got pretty bad. (How we realised how bad they had got is another story I will post on here at some point).

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Gregor Steele @gregorsteele.bsky.social · 4h

Hoo dis Mrs Nae Offence ken whit a monkey's oxter smells like? Read mair braw ScotshooseYaldi comics here: www.scotshooseyaldi.com/primary/comi... #Scotstober

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RobMcInroy @mcinrob.bsky.social · 3h

#Scotstober #oxster

From a short story in my current collection.

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Billy Kay @billykayscot.bsky.social · 6h

#scotstober: oxter.

I lue the line in the 19th C Peninsular War sang the Forfar Sodjer:

“Sae I got haud o some oxter staffs
An I cam hirplin hame, sir. Hurrah, hurrah!”

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 5h

"Pauchle" is in ma tap ten Scots wirds an aw! Ye'r walin belters, chiel!

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 6h

Saturday #Scotstober word: Pauchle - to rig a deck of cards for the purpose of cheating. "Haw sir! You've pauchled they cairds!"

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

A colourised image from perhaps the 1910s of a Scotsman tickling a woman. It is a postcard of that era. They are sitting on a bench next to a bush. There is a loch and sky in the background. He is tickling her. He is wearing a tartan bunnet and a kilt, etcetera, and she is wearing a large, rather shapless dress and flowery bonnet. He has a grip of her right arm with one hand and is tickling her under the chin with his other. She is trying to escape his tickling hand. It looks a bit creepy, truth be told.

Underneath the picture are lyrics from Harry Lauder's song Stop Yer Ticklin Jock. They are in pink letters on a white background.

Will yer stop yer tickling, Jock
Oh stop yer tickling, Jock
Dina mak' me laugh so hearty
Or you'll make me choke
Oh I'd wish you'd stop yer nonsense
Just look at all the folk
Wil yer stop yer tic-kle-ing
Tic-kle-ic-kle-ic-kle-ing
Stop yer tickling, Jock.

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

😅

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 6h

#Scotstober
#Haiku
#Oxter

Fan ticklin yer quine
Dee’t richt intil ih oxters
They’ll skirl like onthin

When tickling your girl
Do it right into the armpits
They’ll scream like anything

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

that he might make trial of its comforts, if any it had.

Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

biscuits were then ranged round the sides within: a flask of fresh water was placed at the head, and a small bag of woody earth scraped up in the hold at the foot; and a piece of sail-cloth being rolled up for a pillow, Queequeg now entreated to be lifted into his final bed,

Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

Leaning over in his hammock, Queequeg long regarded the coffin with an attentive eye. He then called for his harpoon, had the wooden stock drawn from it, and then had the iron part placed in the coffin along with one of the paddles of his boat. All by his own request, also,

Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

mak trial o its easedom, gin ony it haed.

An noo in Sudron...

Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

, biscuits wur syne skailt roond the sides ben: a flask o caller watter wis pit at the heid, an a wee poke o wuidy mools scrapit up in the howld at the fit; an a swatch o sail-claith bein rowed up for a pillae, Queequeg noo besocht tae be oxtert intae his feenal bed, that he micht

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 6h

#Scotstober: Oxter

Fae Moby-Dick, Ch. 110

Leanin ower in his hammock, Queequeg lang regairdit the kist wi a tentie ee. He syne cawed for his herpuin, haed the wuiden stock drewn fae it, an syne haed the airn pairt pit in the kist alang wi yin o the paidles o his boat. Aw by his ain speirin, forby

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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 8h

The cairy o thon pooer mair by a oxter-lift, fowk dree'd an hytert, as daed yon 'at lackit hit.

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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)

#Scotstober 2025-11t - #oxter
#WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
#WritingCommunity

The cairy o thon pooer mair by a oxter-lift, fowk dree'd an hytert, as daed yon 'at lackit hit.

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© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
#Scotstober 2025-11t
oxter

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 15h

Gie it a bash, big yin!

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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 1d

For newer users of BlueSky, please alt-text your images. It helps people who use screen-readers or who have slow internet connections understand the image you've uploaded. Make the web accessible.

I rarely reshare images without alt-text & I know others do the same. Alt-text your images for reach

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Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 20h

A pit the wrang tag on the original post sae here the richt yin the noo

#Scotstober

Albert Kirk Jr @albertkirkjr.bsky.social · 1d

##Scotstober: Swick

Fae Moby-Dick, Ch. 16

“Awa an bile yer heid, Bildad,” cried Peleg, “thou daesnae want tae swick this loon! he maun hae mair than that.”

“Seiven hunner an seiventy-seivent,” agane says Bildad, wioot heezin his een; an syne went on mummlin— 1/2

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RobMcInroy @mcinrob.bsky.social · 1d

#Scotstober #trauchle

Quite a lot of words this year I don't know, but I'm fair used to bein trauchled...

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Elizabeth @raisethegame.bsky.social · 1d

#Scotstober 2025. Swick.
Oor mobile phones hae gied the limmers an swicks o this warld a wey intae oor lugs, whaur thae wheedle us wi grand wirds, whiles ettlin tae mak us gie thaim oor siller!

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Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · 1d

Its day ten o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: swick

Dr Michael Dempster @drmdempster.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨Annooncement!🚨

Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds!

A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year.

A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁

Wirds as text ablow

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Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social · 1d

Lunchtime #Scotstober word of the day: Peh (n. chiefly Dundee) - Pie. As in the famous Dundonian phrase, "Twa plehn pehs an an ingin ane ana." (Trans. "I say, shopkeeper, two of your plainest pies and one infused with onions, and look sharp about it!")

A print of Desperate Dan tucking into a huge cow pie, complete with horns, by Dudley D. Watkins. Image credit https://comic-art-website.myshopify.com/products/desperate-dan-eats-cow-pie

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LeftPeggers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸 @leftpeggers.bsky.social · 1d

#October
#Haiku
#Swick

Ih nichts draain in
Its jist an affa swick min
Far’s wir daylicht gone?

The nights drawing in
It’s just an awful trick
Where’s our daylight gone?

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Stefanie Neumann @kokopellibfree.bsky.social · 1d

A swick at fowk troued war pooer be meant tae uphaud ower ithers. A mis-tak yet tae be diskivert ... mindit, mair 'e lik.

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#Scotstober 2025-10t - #swick
#WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
#WritingCommunity

A swick at fowk troued war pooer be meant tae uphaud ower ithers. A mis-tak yet tae be diskivert ... mindit, mair 'e lik.

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© Stefanie Neumann - @KokopelliBFree
#Scotstober 2025-10t
swick

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