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Scottish Words Illustrated. Each week a Scottish word is added to this site along with an illustration intended to make you laugh and understand. Also provided is a translation of all the words and all the captions into English. Have a look and let me know if I make you smile. There is also help with pronunciation on most of the word pages. *Gie yer friends a gas and let them know about this site.

Illustration Friday

View the thumbnail links to all the weekly word entries for illustration Friday where I interpreted a word set by the owners of the IF web site.

Phonetic guide to pronunciation.

See how the phonetic alphabet works – this link opens a page which gives you guidance on the way each letter in the phonetic alphabet represents a particular sound. This guidance is available as a pop up window when you click on any phonetic image of a Scottish word on most of this site. It will give you some clue as to how you should be pronouncing the words.

Troodles. Definition of troodle here, or how to have fun tweeting doodles.

Buy the Tshirt.

Scottish Words’ Tshirts and stuff can be bought here. If you like what I’m doing here then please buy one (or more). It will help me support the stooryduster web site. Only one word a week – illustrated and defined – that’s all I can afford (typical Scotsman).

An illustrated dictionary?

This will be a comprehensive illustrated dictionary although not yet. But if the years pass and I don’t die too soon it’ll get there.

If I’m spared, as they say.

Alternative.

There is an online Scots dictionary by the Scottish Dictionary Association on the Web which gives well founded meanings for Scottish words – well funded and supported by academics – this site here is only me.

Translation:

*Gie yer friends a gas: give your friends so much enjoyment they’re gasping for breath.

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Your options: You can step through past weekly Scottish words one by one using the previous word and next word buttons at the top right of each word page situated next to the word search option. You can subscribe to the RSS feed here too. You can choose to view the words as just words grouped by year in the archives section. Below the illustration of each Scottish word you have the same options but you can also go directly to the very first word or very last word or choose to view an illustrated word chosen at random. There is a pull down category list in the left column of the word pages where you can sort the words by category creating a list of words, text excerpts and thumbnails. Why Scottish Words gives an overview of the site's purpose and beginning and why Scottish words were chosen as a topic to illustrate. There you can also access some information about me and information in using the phoetic alphabet to help with pronouncing the words and there is a site map of stooryduster. Don't forget you can try the Scottish word quizzes too and you can help me out by buying my T-shirts here at spreadshirt.com. You can also view my small collection of links to Scottish related topics.

If you have any suggestions for anything you think I should add to the stooryduster site you can leave a comment or contact me directly through my contact page. Naturally all the cartoons are my copyright so if you want to use any please let me know. It's surprising how accommodating many artists are with the use of low resolution versions of their images providing you are not making money or other capital from them and the author is credited. But you must ask. Enjoy and thanks for visiting. Alan.

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This page is from http://www.stooryduster.co.uk a web site where you will find many Scottish Words illustrated and defined with translations into English. There is help with pronunciation, quizzes, recipes, poems and every week there is a new word and a new illustration. You can search for words or sort the illustrations by category. It's not yet an illustrated dictionary but it's heading that way.