aboot.

"Weel, they've aboot got the costume right, but why they always think ahm a gigantic muckle lump like thon an still shin doon a lum beats me."

Translation:

aboot: about, nearly.

"Well, they have just about got the costume correct, but why they always think I'm a gigantic large lump like this here and still shin down a chimney beats me."

23, December, 2004