I just wanted to have, well, a chat, man to man, woman to woman, bairn to bairn as I'm sure they put it doon the Wallygate. |
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Will this changing pattern of immigration in time change Scottish perceptions as to just who is and who isn't a bairn of Jock Tamson? |
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Stunned by what I saw as control-freakery and barbarism IĀ resolved to put my baby to my breast when she was hungry, and there she would fall into deep slumber, like a good little hunter-gatherer bairn. |
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Does that mean I'm not allowed here to pick my bairn up? |
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Never mind how Steve Bruce looks now, he was as skinny as a spelk when he was a bairn. |
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Nee thrill at aal like ritin aye, bairn, clarts, spuggy, hadaway and nowt. |
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I've seen many a poor bairn going to school, with patches sown on their britches. |
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Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick. |
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On the tenth month the woman does not escape with her life if the bairn is not born, since it turns in the belly to a deadly disorder, and oftenest on Tuesnight. |
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