strathspey@strathspey.org:14719

Ron.Mackey

RE: Greetin

Nov. 22, 1998, 10:02 p.m. (Message 14719)

> on 20 Nov 98, xxxxxxxxxx@xx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx-xxxxxxxxx.xx wrote...
> 
> From Norman Bett
> 
> >> >I am surprised that no one has come up with info about the Bawbee.  It is
> >> simply the old Scots name for the halfpenny, 1/2d of course, not 1/2p !  
> >
> From Andrew Dewdney
> >> 
> >     Is that no a wee song?  Sittin' on yer mither's knee, waiting for a
> >wee bawbee, to buy some Coulter's Candy?

Didn't think the word is 'waiting'   should it not be 'greetin''
i.e. snivelling? 
Cheers,  Ron   :)

 < 0   Ron Mackey, 
  'O>  Mottingham, 
  /#\  London. UK.
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