Minnie is, according to the OED, a way to say grandmother (or old woman) in Orkney and Shetland. For example, Robert Burns wrote, in "Tam Glen":
My minnie does constantly deave me,And bids me beware o' young men;They flatter, she says, to deceive me;But wha can think sae o' Tam Glen?
Midgies are just midges, the "annoying insects" featured in last month's post "What are these annoying insects that were swarming like mad by Lake Mendota at sunrise today?"
30C is 86°.
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In my youth I spent a few years on a US Navy ship moored in an arm of the Firth of Clyde. We were regularly advised how many minutes we could survive in the drink if we happened to fall overboard. It wasn't long.
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I have trouble reading Burns. I'm not sufficiently familiar with the dialect in which he writes to hear it in my head, as I like to do with poetry, so I end up tangled up in "Is 'wha' pronounced 'ha' or 'wah'?" and such.
Sea Temperature in coastal Scotland is a toasty 55 degrees. By comparison south in by the sea in England clocks in at 68 degrees. No wonder the Romans let Scotland be Scotland.
86°f ? Ever an odd or even Winter day in here North Florida.
Added: The Gulf Stream washes the northern shores of some parts of maritime Scotland. The be palm trees in Scotland. Numerous palm trees in nature.
I'm pretty sure Scottish midgies are not the same thing as American midges. I've been there. They bite. Hard. They're worse than mosquitos.
“The Queen, The Vatican, The Gettys, The Rothschilds, *and* Colonel Sanders before he went tits up. Oh, I hated the Colonel with is wee beady eyes, and that smug look on his face. "Oh, you're gonna buy my chicken! Ohhhhh!"
—— Stuart Mackenzie
Highland midge
I know it is technically the same language, but I don't know what the complaints, and the complaints about the complaints, mean.
Remember August camping on side of Loch Ness. Midgies really annoying. Swam in wet suit in water around 57F degrees. A Japanese documentary crew had a mini sub looking for the monster.
Ouch, 86 in scotland on bare rock faces. brings new meaning to scrambling.
"Added: The Gulf Stream washes the northern shores of some parts of maritime Scotland. The be palm trees in Scotland. Numerous palm trees in nature."
Palm trees are migreatorey?
My wee Scots girlfriend had a standard lowland accent, and she took pains to make herself understood. But once she got nattering with her sister I couldn't understand a word.
"Palm trees are migreatorey?"
They could be carried -- grasped by the roots.
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