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24th January 07, 10:07 AM
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who wants to be a kilted millionaire?
...don't all raise your hands at once!
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is still on here and it's right before the local news broadcast at noon so I usually catch the last question as I'm flipping on the set to get my mid-day newfix.
Yesterday, the question was, "When a Scot refers to his 'Wee Bairns', to what is he refering?".
...they had the usual two dumb answers, the right answer and I think that the last one was something like "small farm buildings".
The guy did get it as he had attended the Edinburgh Tattoo and had heard the phrase used. I didn't notice how much this won him...
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24th January 07, 10:27 AM
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Cool
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24th January 07, 10:35 AM
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Actually, I thought "Wee Bairns" referred to small children.
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24th January 07, 10:38 AM
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 Originally Posted by davedove
Actually, I thought "Wee Bairns" referred to small children.
That's what I thought as well.
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24th January 07, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by auld argonian
Yesterday, the question was, "When a Scot refers to his 'Wee Bairns', to what is he refering?".
...they had the usual two dumb answers, the right answer and I think that the last one was something like "small farm buildings".
Depends, I guess, on what "Scot" they are asking: "Scott Guardino" from Ohio or someone living in the North of Scotland. In the north the language is much intermingled with "Scandinavian" words (one needs to recall that the Isle of Skye, for instance, was settled by Norwegians). "Bairn" comes from barn which means child or children not to be confused with old English "berærn" for house. English plural is "s" so "Barns" or "Bairns" and "Wee" for little.. or.. "little ones". When a "Scot" (the ones in Scotland with one-tee) refers to "Wee Bairns" its to his small children (Lil Crumbsnatchers).
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24th January 07, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by auld argonian
...they had the usual two dumb answers, the right answer and I think that the last one was something like "small farm buildings".
Wee Bairns is small kids....a name that my grandpa called me until he died when I was 26.
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24th January 07, 01:31 PM
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Cool.
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24th January 07, 03:02 PM
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I would love to be a kilted millionaire because I could then afford more kilts! 
And our million in the UK is worth more than a million in the USA and Canada! 
"Bairns" is not actually a term limited to Scotland, you will also hear it in Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesborough, and Hull.
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24th January 07, 05:40 PM
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...let me clarify.
Four possible answers were given: two obviously wrong answers, the correct answer (children) and the last one which was something like "little farm buldings".
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