In terms of Oor Wullie’s contemporaries, Rob Drummond’s stage version of his near neighbours, The Broons, preceded him onstage in 2016. Like that play, Oor Wullie will be directed by Dundee Rep artistic director Andrew Panton, with the Sell a Door company co-producing in association with Noisemaker. Squinty Bridge - colloquial name for a bridge in Glasgow between Finnieston and Govan, officially named the Clyde Arc so named as it is on a diagonal

World number two Lilia Vu was another big winner, seeing off Swede Madelene Sagstrom 4&3 to secure her first point, while Angel Yin defeated France's Celine Boutier - the only player to not contribute even a half point - 2&1 in an epic match that ebbed and flowed.I would like to give extra credit to Caroline Hedwall," said Pettersen. "I feel like she had the crucial point and teed it nicely up for Carlota to bring it home." wean - (pronounced "Wayne") the youngest of the family, sometimes the youngest sibling. Truncation of "wee ane" or little one. ( give that to the wean!). Nowadays, the use of this word has become obsolete in English. However, jings or by jings is occasionally still in use in Scots and Scottish English. In its first recorded usage, by jing was shown to have been a swear word. The expression by jing was, for example, included in the poem “Halloween” by Robert Burns from 1785. 22 Similar occurrences of jings have also been noted in Australian English, even today. The Macquarie Dictionary defines jings as “A remark or whinge of derision when one is told one cannot have what one wants (i.e., go to the pictures, swimming, have money etc.): Jings! Also, jingies” – this is exactly the meaning evident in Oor Wullie.” 23 and but - suffix indicating that the speaker has now finished talking. ("We went doon tae Largs for fish an' chips, and but.") Ciganda won all four matches she played in and was immediately hugged by her emotional captain Suzann Pettersen.

The not-so-changing face of Oor Wullie on his 80th anniversary". BBC News. 8 March 2016 . Retrieved 27 October 2021. Michael Stubbs, ‘Society, Education and Language: The last 2,000 (and the next 20?) years of language teaching’ (p. 3), in Change and Continuity in Applied Linguistics, edited by Hugh Trappes-Lomax (Clevedon: BAAL and Multilingual Matters, 2000), pp. 15–34. In total, there will be 200 sculptures across Scotland in Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness, with similar farewell events and auctions taking place in each city. Interestingly enough you can replace crivvens with jings in almost any sentence, and it basically has no impact on the meaning of it. The only sentence above where it does not go is “holy jings”. That does NOT work at all. wan / ane - one (number or referring to an object person) "Wan table please." "Wit wan de ye want?" "Geez ane."

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Barras - a market, started by Margaret McIver, joined for the initial use of wheel barrows/"barras" to sell things from, at the Barrowland in the east end of Glasgow.

When I saw Suzann on 16, she told me a couple of things, and I was like, 'I'm just going to do this for her, because I love her and she deserves this'."Organised in partnership by five organisations: The ARCHIE Foundation, DC Thomson Media, Wild in Art, Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity and Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity, the Oor Wullies will be on the streets for 11 weeks before the Tayside and Fife sculptures appear together at a farewell gathering in Slessor Gardens, from September 13-15. They will then be auctioned off the following day at Dundee Rep on September 16 to raise money for The ARCHIE Foundation, which is the official charity of the Tayside Children’s Hospital at Ninewells. Europe perhaps came closest with Georgia Hall letting slip a two-hole lead with four to play. Some errant putting, including missing twice from six feet on the par-three 17th, allowed Andrea Lee to claim a half point.

teuchter - someone that lives in the countryside, especially from the Highlands or Isles of Scotland Crivens, Crivvens’, Scottish National Dictionary, Dictionary of the Scots Language https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/crivens (Consulted 19 October 2020).

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sassenach - often used for an English person, Southerner, but more accurately it is someone born below the Highland Line. With time, the Scottishness of Oor Wullie so very prominent in the earlier issues has been toned down in the more recent issues. This, however, does not mean that Oor Wullie has become less interesting or that it is not just as playful today – with new digital means of communication.