Saturday, January 14, 2012

This is a Usable Word? Ablins

Ablins is a Scottish word that means perhaps. It's a word that surely would only be used in Scotland!

I looked for it via a Google search, and it comes up on a couple of wesites that deal with scrabble words, but as for use in real conversation...

Well, I found a site that writes poetry.

I share the one that uses ABLINS.

http://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=ablins
The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
I remarked to my buddy, a Scot,
"Ken, your sister's exceedingly hot!
She is such a good-looker,
I hear she's a hooker."
"Ach! Ablins," he said, "ablins not."

written 2007 by Chris Stollin. Shared here by fair use.

The word is from:
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