Scots - Need help translating "I love a sausage"

Lysander · 7 Nov 2007 at 15:43

OK, there's only one part of this I actually don't understand, the rest is easy. What is an ingan or ingin?

I Love a Sausage

1.
I love a sausage, a big boloney sausage,
If ye saw it ye wad fancy it yersel,
If ye fry it with an ingin,
Ye can hear the sausage singin',
"Mary, my Scots Bluebell".

2.
I had a sausage, a bonny, bonny sausage,
I put it in the oven for my tea.
I went down to the cellar
To get the salt and pepper,
And the sausage ran after me.

3.
I love a cookie
A Co'perative cookie
A haill big cookie to masel:
Ye squeeze oot the cream
And hear the cookie scream--
Mary, my Scots Bluebell!

I love a cabbage,
A Co'perative cabbage
A haill big cabbage to masel:
Ye cut oot the hairt
And gie it to your tairt
Mary, my Scots bluebell!

I love an aipple
A Co'perative aipple
A haill big aipple to masel:
Ye cut it up in qua'ers
And gie it to the squa'ers--
Mary, my Scots bluebell!

I love an ingan
A Co'perative ingan
A haill big ingan to masel:
Ye fry it wi' a sausage
And hear the ingan singan'--
Mary, my Scots bluebell!

4.
I love a cookie, a Co-operative cookie,
Tho' ye cannae get near it for the smell;
If ye spread it wi' some syrup,
Ye'll hear the syrup chirrup,
"Mary, ma Scots Bluebell."

I love a sausage, a Co-operative sausage,
Tho' ye cannae get near it for the smell;
If ye fry it wi' an ingin,
Ye'll hear the ingin singin',
"Mary, ma Scots Bluebell."

I love some breid, some Co-operative breid,
Tho' ye cannae get near it for the smell;
If ye spread it wi' some butter,
Ye'll hear the butter mutter,
"Mary, ma Scots Bluebell."

Psymonkee · 7 Nov 2007 at 15:44

onion iirc

jamief · 7 Nov 2007 at 15:46

Yep, an onion.

Gaz1988 · 7 Nov 2007 at 15:48

onion!

hard to explain but kinda pronouced "un-yin" as appoused to ingan.

Dunks · 7 Nov 2007 at 15:55

Onion.

JohnnyG · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:01

It's Indian, Scots still practice cannibalism in the higher reaches

Vixen · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:03

Gaz1988 said:
onion!

hard to explain but kinda pronouced "un-yin" as appoused to ingan.

No, it's pronounced ing-an.

SpicyDuck · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:06

Ingan, pfftt.

Ohhh, we're all special, skirt-wearing, big bad rock throwers.

do_ron_ron · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:07

I go with onion

Gaz1988 · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:11

No, it's pronounced ing-an.

if you have some kind of speach problem then maybe. when i read the paragraph above i said it as "un-yin" or "un-yan"

helmet · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:15

Ahh another band in the elastic ball of perpetuated myth that Scottish people do things entirely different from the rest of the human race.

What do you cook your sausages with?

Gaz1988 · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:16

What do you cook your sausages with?

we eat them raw.

Vixen · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:17

Gaz1988 said:
if you have some kind of speach problem then maybe. when i read the paragraph above i said it as "un-yin" or "un-yan"

Good for you. In that context, since it's written ingin, it's pronounced as written.

~J~ · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:17

Nothing to do with the onion, but my mate is from Glasgow and always says left handed people are (and I'm gonna spell thing wrong), "Corni Horne" or something.

I can understand the un-yin easily, but where the hell did the left-handed saying come from?

Dunks · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:18

helmet said:
What do you cook your sausages with?

A grill or oven.

Vixen · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:22

~J~ said:
Nothing to do with the onion, but my mate is from Glasgow and always says left handed people are (and I'm gonna spell thing wrong), "Corni Horne" or something.

I can understand the un-yin easily, but where the hell did the left-handed saying come from?

It's not un-yin

.

~J~ · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:27

Vixen said:
It's not un-yin .

LOL - well whateve the hell it is!!

True story: Lived in Hillhead for a year, few people I worked with asked me if I fancied going for a fish supper after the pub. Great idea I thought. Halfway through the pub drinking, I said I'd be back in 20, went back to the flat, got changed into something smarter. I thought that a fish supper was a meal at a restaurant - didn't realise it was just from the chippie!! Felt a right idiot going into the chippie on the corner of Hillhead crossroads wearing a dinner jacket

XPE · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:31

~J~ said:
LOL - well whateve the hell it is!!

True story: Lived in Hillhead for a year, few people I worked with asked me if I fancied going for a fish supper after the pub. Great idea I thought. Halfway through the pub drinking, I said I'd be back in 20, went back to the flat, got changed into something smarter. I thought that a fish supper was a meal at a restaurant - didn't realise it was just from the chippie!! Felt a right idiot going into the chippie on the corner of Hillhead crossroads wearing a dinner jacket

What a story

Gaz1988 · 7 Nov 2007 at 16:39

~J~ said:
True story: Lived in Hillhead for a year, few people I worked with asked me if I fancied going for a fish supper after the pub. Great idea I thought. Halfway through the pub drinking, I said I'd be back in 20, went back to the flat, got changed into something smarter. I thought that a fish supper was a meal at a restaurant - didn't realise it was just from the chippie!! Felt a right idiot going into the chippie on the corner of Hillhead crossroads wearing a dinner jacket

similar thing happened when my mate from england came up, he ordered a burger, the lady asked if he wanted a supper and he said no. then when he jsut got his burger he said "am i not getting chips with it", she was not amused and thought he was trying to be smart.

PsiFox · 7 Nov 2007 at 17:10

OvertoneBliss said:
Ingan, pfftt.

Ohhh, we're all special, skirt-wearing, big bad rock throwers.

You left out "tossing"

Scots - Need help translating "I love a sausage"

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