14-12-2015, 00:32
"Sooth-moother" is actually a pejorative term used predominantly by the peoples of the Shetlands and Orkneys when referring to "incomers" or "white settlers", or people from the mainland. I picked it up from my own mother, who is from Kirkwall.
In Caithness we tend to refer to these types as being from "sooth o' 'e Ord" whether they're from Golspie or Brisbane.
And therein ends the lecture on the various Northern terms for soft southern puffery.
I could link to a twelve minute monologue in broad Caithness dialect on the story of The Battle of the Orange - the last pitched battle involving the militia on British soil, which happened in Wick in the mid nineteenth century. It was about an orange, strangely enough - if anyone's genuinely interested.
In Caithness we tend to refer to these types as being from "sooth o' 'e Ord" whether they're from Golspie or Brisbane.
And therein ends the lecture on the various Northern terms for soft southern puffery.
I could link to a twelve minute monologue in broad Caithness dialect on the story of The Battle of the Orange - the last pitched battle involving the militia on British soil, which happened in Wick in the mid nineteenth century. It was about an orange, strangely enough - if anyone's genuinely interested.
