Flashback: 24AU16 - Silver Adventures of Captain Joshua Slane - “Toor ay Sooth Africars”
Keptin's Log:
"Skitin' Problem"
24 ay August, 1716, 09:30 AM
"Oooh doon in t' deep brine, lies t' purple Octoopuss...Ohhhh doon in t' deep brine swims t' mighty Norrrwhale! Deedee doo da, deedee day......Ooooh doon in t' deep brine lies me beauty Sally May!!"
"Kep'n! Kep'n! We're losin groon Kep'n! Shooldnae ye be up oan th' Poop directin th' wheel??" Tipper asked worriedly.
"Wus att?! Doonae bortha me laddie, cannae ye see Ahh'm tunin a melody! Noo brin' me mair grog o Ahh"ll comb me moggie o 'eecht tails cross yer stern!"
"Aye, Aye Kep'n, but..."
"Arr ye stoaner o hearin Laddie?!!"
"No Sairrr, och aye Sairrr, reit awa' Sairrr!".
"Oooooooooooh doon in t' deep brine..................".
With a strang sootherly win' th' mighty ship "Silverton" plowed waters sooth-eest, slowly losin secht ay th' menacin' fleit an' th' treasure tae th' north. Th' first mucker Galligan scratched his heed as Tipper gae 'em th' bark 'at th' ship was temporarily under his commain. He kent he hud tae try tae keep eest ay th' stoatin guns ay th' Cape. Strange ur th' times men, strange ur th' times!
Vocabulary fur lain lovers:
aff (off), aicht (eight), ainae (am not), alrecht (alright), an’ (and), anither (another), anyain (anyone), athwart (across), att’s (that’s), auld (old),
ay (of)
baith (both), barney (fight), bark (news), bide (wait), blaw (blow), bonnie (pretty), brae (brave), braw (fine),
caller (fresh), cannae (cannot), canty (happy), caur (care), causey (street), cheil (man), chib (knife), coopon (face), coorie (hurry), cuddie (horse), cuik (cook)
dae (do), daein (doing), diz (does), doose (douse), dorn't (don't), duir (door),
Eh’d (I’d), enaw (enough)
fa (who), fest (fast), fin’ (find), fok (f-word), fur (for)
gae (get), gang (go), gart (made), ginger (soda-pop), gob (mouth), groon (ground), grottie (dirty), guid (good)
haem (home), hasnae (hasn’t), hauld (hold), haur (here), heed (head), hiner (hope), hoo (how), hunder (hundred), huir uv a (very),
it (out)
ken (know)
lain (land), lit (let),
main (must), mair (more), micht (might), mingin’ (nasty), moggie (cat), mony (many), morn (morning),
nane (none), ned (steal), nehin (behind), noo (now),
och (oh), onie (any), ower (over),
pit (put), puir (poor), pure (really)
radge (rough), rin (run),
Sairrr (Sir), scair (score), scart (scratch), scragg (infection), shair (shore), six (scuttle), skitin’ (drinking), slainte (cheers), sooth (south), stain (stand), stoaner (hard,strong), staretcht (straight), strang (strong), swally (beer), swin (fool)
tae (to), tak (take), tatties (potatoes), th’ (the), thaur (there), thes (this),
tint (lost), twintie (twenty),
ur (or)
waesucks (sorrow, pity), whit (what), whaur (where), whieest (quiet), win' (wind), wi’ (with)
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"Augist ay 1716 was a stoaner month fur me. Th' winds waur puir an' th' crew was restless!" -Keptin