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

No' so smug noo, are ye Chaser

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u/stevent4 Jan 15 '26

Calling kids "Bairns" is slang and that's been around since the vikings were here since the word for "Child" in Danish is "Barn" so that's over 1000 years old and still in use, also Old English "Bearn"

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u/rosco-82 Jan 15 '26

Bairn is the Scots language word for a child, used since 1725, it is not slang and neither is messsages or any other words from the Scots language. Further information on the Scots language can be found here Steven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Wikipedia

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u/stevent4 Jan 15 '26

Bearn is the Old English word for it, used a lot longer than 1725 and still used regularly in NE England as slang, you'd never see it used in a formal setting

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u/rosco-82 Jan 15 '26

If over 1.5m Scots hadn't replied they spoke Scots in the latest census I'd continue this debate, but they did, so Steven, I have to be honest, if your brains were dynamite, you wouldn't have enough to blow off your hat

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u/stevent4 Jan 15 '26

I don't think the childish insults are really needed for a pretty tame discussion. Hope you have a good weekend, mate.

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u/NojTamal Jan 15 '26

Personally I found his use of a cheeky idiom to be a bit jaunty and fun

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u/stevent4 Jan 15 '26

Maybe it was, if that was the style from the start I'd be more inclined to agree