Post by HardySpicerPost by The HighlanderPost by HardySpicerI thought it was "Keecher" but that may well be an Oor Wullie word.
The Scots dictionary has never heard of the word.
Hardy
It probably has, it's just that it hasn't yet sunk to your
intellectual level.
Your obsession with "keech" is interesting, as most children give up
playing with it around the age of one.
For your information Canadian we don't use the word Keech in Aberdeen
- not that I can remember.
I rememebr Keeker only from a Broons book.
Hardy
Ah well, there you are! I didn't learn my Scots from a Broon's book, I
learned it from people who used it as part of their everyday speech.
As for your statements above regarding keech, I'd just as soon have it
confirmed by a genuine Aberdonian like Neb and not some Paisley bairn
bidin wi hes grannie frae Lammas tae Michaelmas, gin ye ken whi aa
tha's aboot... A doot ese yin's an Inglisman.
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Well I was brought up aboot 70-80 miles away from Tam's haunts in the Mearns
and he's sort of right. As is often the case in Doric we have our own way of
doing things and we used the word kach instead of keech. I always assumed
keech was a Glasgow/West coast version. Having said that I've never heard
either of them said in Aeberdeen itself.
Helen will be along in a minute to give us the Fife version - unless her
folk were too genteel to use words like that!
Neb