Please help your child to learn one of the poems below.

You can hear how to say some of the Scots dialect words using these links:

Crocodile  https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/11/type/referance

Nessie      https://www.electricscotland.com/culture/features/scots/nessie2.htm

 

Crocodile by J K Annand

When doukin in the River Nile
I met a muckle crocodile.
He flicked his tail, he blinked his ee,
Syne bared his ugsome teeth at me.

Says I, “I never saw the like.
Cleaning your teeth maun be a fyke!
What sort of besom do ye hae
To brush a set o teeth like thae?”

The crocodile said, “Nane ava.
I never brush my teeth at aa!
A wee bird redds them up, ye see,
And saves me monie a dentist’s fee.”

NESSIE by J K Annand

Nessie the Loch Ness Monster
Wad seem to be gey blate,
And doesna like the scientist chiels
That come, and sit, and wait.

But gif ye want to see her
Pretend ye dinna care,
Keek oot the corner o your ee –
Ye’ll see her soomin there.

She’ll wiggle-humphie-waggle,
She’ll goggle wi her een,
Syne disappear ablow the loch
Like she had never been.

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