Quote Originally Posted by donsdaft View Post
Far too much use of the dreaded B word.

It’s a roll
You get rolls, softies and baps.

Bacon is best in a bap but in a softie would be acceptable.

The use of the word rowie is acceptable and increased in use with the influx of non Aberdonians into the city.

But B........

Never never never
Phew ,just scraped in then !!

I'm a Fifer by birth. We moved to Aberdeen when I was eight. My Mother was a gym teacher , ansd taught at Tory first of all.

As I wasnt placed in a school for a few weeks , I was dragged along to 8 hrs a day of gym . Local kids kindly took the time to lernt me tae spek proapar . I was lightheartedly quizzed as to whetehr I was a loon or a quine etc. Fast learning process ( like ).

But form my earliest days i'm pretty sure they told me it was a rowie.............. And these would have been wee loons and quines fed frrom Aitkens ??

Where they just using " rowie" since I was a foreigner , and thats what incomers should be calling it ???