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Every thing has its match

Fisherfolk across Old Weird Scotland thought every being on land had a “partner” found in the sea.

SEA-FUTRET – cuttlefish (“sea weasel/ferret”)
SEA-COCK – puffin
SEA-PYOT – oystercatcher (“sea-magpie”)
SEA-SOU – ballan wrasse
SEA-PHEASANT – turbot
SEA-GOOSEBERRY – jellyfish

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Two Aberdonian Tongue Twisters

from circa 1830.

“A peacock pykit a peck o paper oot o a paper poke. Pyke paper, peacock!”

“Ah snuff shop snuff. Dae ye snuff shop snuff?”

J. Riddell (1868) Aberdeen and Its Folk, from the 20th to 50th Year of the Present Century.