As an East Midlander moving north, I had to learn that "away" meant "come this way with me". You won't find stotties much further south than the Tees. They may be winds in Richmond; In Darlngton, it's Post House Wynd with the y as in "sigh" (or in Blow, blow thou winter wind, where it has to rhyme with "kind"). In Yarm (North Riding)it's pronounced Bentley Weend. O Douglas, Scots author, John Buchan's sister,wrote of a fattish woman "Mrs Jackson stotted forward on her high heels." A "stot" is a (?) Scots word for a steer/bullock.
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Date: 2003-10-18 02:25 pm (UTC)You won't find stotties much further south than the Tees.
They may be winds in Richmond; In Darlngton, it's Post House Wynd with the y as in "sigh" (or in Blow, blow thou winter wind, where it has to rhyme with "kind"). In Yarm (North Riding)it's pronounced Bentley Weend.
O Douglas, Scots author, John Buchan's sister,wrote of a fattish woman "Mrs Jackson stotted forward on her high heels." A "stot" is a (?) Scots word for a steer/bullock.