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Defining gitter and other useful Scottish words…

 

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Scottish Sayings!

 

When you read my posts or pages, there may be a few random Scottish words that you don’t know. Before I launch into this blog description, I promise I won’t sound like Spud’s famous interview in Trainspotting (1996) – as seen in the picture above.

I have to explain more about the definition of the verb “to gitter“ as you won’t find it in the urban dictionary. It’s a term I learnt from my Glaswegian mum, and most of my family use it to describe me and more or less since I met him, my Darlin Husband has used it too! (Thanks mum x).

It usually means when I start talking about something I am passionate about, in an overexcited way and then go on and on and get more and more random. It does get the point over eventually albeit in a long-winded way! Its opposite is “wee” which means little in Scottish such as wee Weegie which is a little person from Glasgow!

In my blog, you will probably notice despite gittering about films, I tend togitter i.e. digress and end up talking about the original TV Series of Dallas (1978-91). If you haven’t heard of the original Dallas. it starred telly legends such as Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray, shame on you. Unless you work out from the fact I review loads of 1970s movies that you are considerably younger than me, then please ask your parents.

If you know about the newer series Dallas 90210 2012 (2012-15) as you read this blog from start to finish you will know much, much more about the original one. It’s so far a near lifetime obsession as I do tend to mention it..  more than once or twice (probably more but I know my mother reads my blog and I don’t want to drive her crazy) in most of my reviews.

When I met my Darlin Husband, I met him on a dating website, in the about me blurb I gittered for one lengthy paragraph about random subjects such as me, my niece and nephew, Truly, Madly, Deeply Homer Simpson, ‘Allo ‘Allo and the actors Ewan McGregor and George Clooney.  As things turned out, it was my randomness that swung it.

Anyway, I won’t gitter too much about what happened after this. But luckily for me, he’s pretty random at times too. Then about 2½ years later we moved to Finland and in 2015 we got married. Super glad didn’t listen to my work colleague who told me not to gitter on our first date or I wouldn’t see him again…

 

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