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Hope you theoldnorthstate and everyone had a good 4th of July. Have just read that three of the signatures to the Independence Declaration were born in Ulster. I knew others had their roots in Ulster.
Wild Blue is a book about George McGovern and his time in the air force. After the war some of the planes were being scrapped and he objected to this... '' I couldn't believe it. Made no sense at all. It really stirred my Scotch-Irish soul to see it taking place '' . So he did know his roots.
As an aside my father and sister were both born on the 4th of July. I was born on the 12th of July so it's party time on Friday.
19/7/2019 The Open world golf tournament is taking place today at Portrush. Here are some of the words and their meanings used by the local people
Graeme McDowell is frae North Antrim, whaur monie fowk taak tha Ulster-Scotch leid (ye widnae ken it noo he taaks aa American 😉. If yer up roon Portrush fur tha gowf, aiblins ye'll meet yin or twa Ulster-Scotch taakers.
Here's a wee list o wurds tae keep ye richt:
1. Aye - yes
2. Birl - spin
3. Breeks - trousers
4. Canny - careful
5. Carfuffle - commotion
6. Carnaptious - irritable
7. Crabbit - grumpy
8. Crack - banter, news
9. Cribpad - footpath
10. Danner - stroll
11. Footery - awkward to work at
12. Forbye - as well
13. Foundered - feeling very cold
14. Farl - quarter round griddle scone, soda farl
15. Gulder - shout loudly
16. Happed up - wrapped up warm
17. Hallion - a rascal
18. Heartsome - comforting
19. Hoke - dig, root around
20. Houl - hold
21. Houl yer wheest - keep quiet
22. Jeuk - avoid
23. Lassie - girl
24. Mind - remember
25. Mingin - dirty and smelly
26. Neb - nose
27. Oul - old
28. Oxter - armpit
29. Poke - ice cream cone
30. Pruck - stuff
31. Quare - considerable
32. Redd up - tidy up
33. Scallion - spring onion
34. Simmet - vest
35. Scraigh o dawn - very early morning
36. Scunnered - disgusted
37. Shoogley - unsteady
38. Skelf - splinter
39. Skiff o rain - light shower
40. Slabber - loudmouth or saliva
41. Sleekit - sly
42. Steamin - very drunk
43. Stoor - dust
44. Teemin - raining hard
45. Thole - endure
46. Thon - that
47. Thonder - there
48. Thran - stubborn
49. Wean - child
50. Wee - small https://www.facebook.com/UlsterScotsAgency/?__tn__=kC-
19/7/2019 The Open world golf tournament is taking place today at Portrush. Here are some of the words and their meanings used by the local people
Graeme McDowell is frae North Antrim, whaur monie fowk taak tha Ulster-Scotch leid (ye widnae ken it noo he taaks aa American 😉. If yer up roon Portrush fur tha gowf, aiblins ye'll meet yin or twa Ulster-Scotch taakers. ....
Some of your readers might be interested in seeing how many of the world on your list match up with this etymological dictionary (online) of Scots Gaelic.
Some of your readers might be interested in seeing how many of the world on your list match up with this etymological dictionary (online) of Scots Gaelic.
There is no such race or people known as "Scotch". They are Scots. Scotch is a whiskey.
That argument has been going on for some time now My own take on it is that they did use Scotch as a name but when whisky became a business and sold commercially it was called Scotch so they dropped Scotch and changed to Scots.
He was a great man for Ulster-Scots and the language
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Admin · 30 July at 08:52
It is with great sadness we announce the death of Professor Michael Montgomery, 2nd President of the Ulster-Scots Language Society and Ulster-Scots Academy (succeeding Professor R J Gregg), a dear friend and an unequalled champion of the academic study of the Ulster-Scots language. The obituary has been prepared by his sister Karen.
Michael Bryant Montgomery, age 69, of Lexington, SC, formerly of Knoxville, TN, passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Michael was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC. and a graduate of Holston High School (class of 1968), Maryville College (B.A.), the University of Tennessee (M.A.), and the University of Florida (Ph.D in Linguistics). He was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics at the University of South Carolina and a renowned expert on Southern American English, Appalachian English, Ulster Scots, and the Scots-Irish influence on American English. Michael was an author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English (co-author, 2004); Language. Volume 5 of New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (co-editor, 2007); From Ulster to America: The Scotch-Irish History of American English (2017); and Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English (co-author, forthcoming). He was co-host of a website on Appalachian English, at: http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/engl/dictionary/. His honors included the 2004 Wilma Dykeman Award for Historical Writing from the East Tennessee Historical Society, the Cratis D. Williams/James Brown Award from the Appalachian Studies Association, one of the Top 100 Most influential People in the Great Smoky Mountains History by the Great Smoky Mountains Association, and a Grammy nomination for the music CD “Old Time Smoky Mountain Music.” He was Past President of the American Dialect Society, the Southeastern Conference on Linguistic, and the Ulster Scots Language Society. Michael was preceded in death by his parents Bryant Smith Montgomery and Ann Cunningham Montgomery. He was survived by his sister Marcia Ann Montgomery, sister Karen Montgomery Atchley and husband Philip Earl Atchley, brother David Arthur Montgomery and wife Maria Montgomery, nieces Rachel Elaine Atchley and Julia Bess Lopez, and nephews Philip Marcus Atchley, Michael David Montgomery, Victor Bryant Montgomery, and Daniel Arthur Montgomery. The family will receive friends from 12:00 noon until 2:00 pm on August 1, 2019 at ROSE MORTUARY BROADWAY CHAPEL, Knoxville, TN. Family and friends will meet at 2:45 pm on August 1, 2019 at Greenwood Cemetery, Knoxville, TN for a 3:00 pm graveside service. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, SC. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to World Vision, Federal Way, WA; or to Estate of Michael Montgomery (for publication of Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English), 298 Walker Road, Jellico, TN 37762. Online obituary may be viewed and condolences extended at www.rosemortuary.com.
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. If yer up roon Portrush fur tha gowf, aiblins ye'll meet yin or twa Ulster-Scotch taakers. 
