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Daimo B
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25th Sep 08 at 14:53   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
History.

Where does the wee come from?

Scottish guy at work on the phone “ok I’ll give you a call back in a wee minute”

Where did the weeeeeeee come from? Where did it come from. Did the Scots invent the first play slides? Surley something must have happened to become part of the language.

Anyone know? Genuinly interested if theres a real reason.
Jamie
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Just a term used to describe something small


eg - "Alright wee man"
_Allan_
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William Wallace was a Nintendo fan boi imo.

[Edited on 25-09-2008 by _Allan_]
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I say wee all the time.

"extremely small," c.1450, from earlier noun use in sense of "quantity, amount" (cf. a littel wei "a little thing or amount," c.1300), from O.E. wæge "weight" (see weigh). Adj. use wee bit apparently developed as parallel to such forms as a bit thing "a little thing." Wee hours is attested by 1891, from Scot. wee sma' hours (1787, Burns). Wee folk "faeries" is recorded from 1819. Weeny "tiny, small" is from 1790.

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From Middle English we (“‘little bit’”) < Old English wæ:ge (“‘weight’”), related to Old English wegan (“‘to move, weigh’”) (15c).

wee (comparative weer, superlative weest)

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wee


Comparative
weer

Superlative
weest

1. (Scotland) small, little

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wee
Daimo B
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YEah, but the guys a scot through and through, so that translates as

I'll give you a call back in a small minute?

Or is it just a word thats overally used out of context (like Chav, not every sub 25yo is a chav ).
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It doesn't translate, in the loosest use of the word, directly as 'small'

It can be used for time, length, cock size etc etc etc
Ellis
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25th Sep 08 at 15:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by VXR
YEah, but the guys a scot through and through, so that translates as

I'll give you a call back in a small minute?
Hmmm, I would say 'sma' for the word small, but as hammer says doesn't translate...
ed
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It's just slang. Every language and dialect has slang.
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25th Sep 08 at 15:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I dont ken what you mean.
Hammer
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Who's Ken?
Daimo B
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Och aye the noooo.

Maybe slang, but being at the very bottom of England, Im not clued up on the complexitys of the scottish tounge (well, in a manner of speaking anyway).

Bit like someone down here going

faarrrrrrk orrrrrrfffff

Same as Fuckoff
corsa - gus
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25th Sep 08 at 15:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Dave A
I dont ken what you mean.


Thats regional, southern Scotland and the Fifers are the only ones you will hear speaking of ken.
Jambo
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25th Sep 08 at 15:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we need a jr sound bite for that Daimo
ed
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25th Sep 08 at 15:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I remember when I signed up here. AK would always finish his posts with something about ken. Confused me a lot
Daimo B
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25th Sep 08 at 15:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
we need a jr sound bite for that Daimo


JR's too well spoken for a southerner. Not enough "dartford innit" in his speach
Jambo
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25th Sep 08 at 15:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
random customer: hi, can i buy an audi tt...
Jr: faaaaark offfffff
K17STY
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25th Sep 08 at 17:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by VXR
Bit like someone down here going

faarrrrrrk orrrrrrfffff

Same as Fuckoff


That would be 'git yersel tae fuck'


 
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