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"Buddy" -- or Budi —
Apple iPhone charger lead with a wide range of high-quality tech
accessories; Paisley Buddy is the traditional nickname for a native of
the west of Scotland town, derives from an older Scots word "body"
famously used in Burns' poetry and songs the BBC cites Ulster-Scots as
in "boadie, buddy and buddie."
“Jings" -- Social Media Today points to positive jing ie on the
offensive, negative jing as in retreating, neutral jing waiting and
watching; A Scots Magazine word of the week identified as an expression
of surprise or amazement as in "Oh my goodness" and includes a Scottish
comic strip character with that name.
"Bard" -- Google's original AI chatbot was so named now Gemini,
also Bardy used throughout social media slang referring to sick, bad,
cool, awesome; Gaelic also spelled baird in Scots originally deriving
from Celtic roots meaning a poet, singer, a minstrel with Scotland.org
identifying the most famous Robert Burns.
"Sleekit" -- Out of the Punjab SleekIT Technologies example of
Scots global influence; Burns made term famous in opening line of his
1785 poem "To a Mouse" as in Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie.
"Bummer"-- Formal acronym coined by technologist Jaron Lanier
claiming social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Google
engineer algorithms to manipulate and maximise engagement user-behaviour
fuelling emotions to control free will, reduce empathy and increase
societal unhappiness, then sell on predictions as a commodity; Scots
Language Centre describes a humming noise, a factory siren.
"Ken" -- Pops up online highlighting knowledge-based innovator
(KEN), another example out of India 'The Ken' is a healthcare website;
Dictionaries of the Scots Language says term is used as a question tag
at the end of a phrase or sentence to attract attention or confirmation
as in to know, recognise, perceive, make known. |
