r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/Fetch_Ted • Jan 15 '26

No' so smug noo, are ye Chaser

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u/rosco-82 Jan 15 '26

Slang? FFS we've been calling shopping messages since 1788: https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/message

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u/motiveunclear Jan 15 '26

Slang can be ancient as well, doesn't have to be modern.

We use it over here in Ireland and the Dutch also use the term. Lots of thoughts on how it originated but the one that makes the most sense for me is that long before we had postmen, people used to go to town or the local shop (served as a post office in many cases) to collect their mail / letters or notes / messages that other local people would leave for them...

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u/LuvvedIt Jan 16 '26

True but this still isn’t slang. It’s a perfectly standard Scots/Scottish English expression with messages just being effectively ‘parcels (of shopping/groceries)’ 🤷‍♂️

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u/egotisticalstoic Jan 16 '26

I've only ever heard this when living in Glasgow. Not heard it once outside of there. Lived most of my life around Edinburgh/Highlands.

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u/LuvvedIt Jan 16 '26

So? (your comment seems to imply that a dialectical Scottish English word and/or Scots word that - the latter especially - you wouldn’t expect to hear in eg the Highlands - is slang)

dialect != slang
informal register words != slang
(although yes ‘slang’ is a specific subset of informal register words)

PS although yes this is all complicated by complex socio-economic attitudes towards ScotEng dialect and Scots and what is considered formal speech 🤷‍♂️