scottish differences

Some days, I feel like I need an interpreter on hand. I had no idea how hard it would be to understand some people. To be fair, the majority of the time I can understand everyone when they are talking to me. But if they start talking to another Scottish (or Northern Irish...there are a ton of them here) person, it all goes downhill. To add on to that, they have a number of different words as well. They always sneak up on you when you least expect it. I thought I would share a few of their words with you.

dear= expensive. for a second, I thought the guy I was talking to had a close relationship with the nearest grocery store. 

kip= sleep. such as "have a nice kip." 

crackin'= happening. kind of like up in "what's up?"

ta= thank you

tea=dinner. while staying in glasgow, that was always a confusing one. 

wee= little. you probably already know that one, but they actually say it...all the time!!!

oh, and other differences. these are to do with food, specifically ketchup. one, they have these things called bacon rolls (basically a roll with bacon and butter in it) and they put ketchup on it. to sound totally uncultured, ew. secondly, they put ketchup on french toast. NEVER syrup. funny!