Supposedly ginger beer was one of the first commercially available soft drink/soda you could buy in Glasgow, so all fizzy soft drinks got named “ginger”. In Edinburgh soft drinks are all called “juice”.
When I suggested that such Glaswegian terminology may not have reached the Mediterranean, he modified his request to 'a botel o' ginger'. This was the ubiquitous word for fizzy drinks in Scotland, derived from the early days of ginger beer.
ginger A general term for all varieties of fizzy soft drinks: 'Gie's a boatle a ginger, missis,' 'What kinna ginger, son?'
Scottish people refer to all fizzy drinks as 'juice'
Ginger. Ginger is what other Brits and Scots refer to as fizzy juice.
During this time and throughout the 19th century, Britain occupied parts of Malaysia, home to the Red Ginger plant. Beautifully bright as a beacon, this fiery-headed plant caught the attention of many visitors to the country, and has been cited as one of the first instances of redheads being called 'Gingers'.
Scottish slang for drunk…
Now this is one word they have plenty of versions of! Blootered, Steamin', Wrecked, Bladdered, Hammered, Sloshed and Smashed to name just a few of the more regular sounding ones. 'Ooot yer tree', 'Steamboated', 'Mad wae it' and 'Ooot the game' being some of the stranger sounding phrases!
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the term "fizzy drink" is common. "Pop" and "fizzy pop" are used in Northern England, South Wales, and the Midlands while "mineral" is used in Ireland. In Scotland, "fizzy juice" or even simply "juice" is colloquially encountered, as is "ginger".
Dinnae teach yer Granny tae suck eggs
This phrase means that you shouldn't try to teach someone something that they already have a lot of knowledge about.
A lass is a girl. Your Scottish folk dance teacher might announce, "Lads line up on that side, lasses on this side!" Lass is an old-fashioned way to say "young girl," and it's more common in parts of Britain than in the US.
pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish) (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.
In the UK, most people refer to their soft drinks as 'pop,' 'fizzy drink,' 'fizzy pop,' or simply by the brand name. Even though a handful of Britons call it soda, the term 'soda' commonly refers to carbonated water or fizzy water in the UK. Also, in some parts of the UK and Ireland, sodas are called fizzy drinks.
Irn Bru is a drink that can only really be associated with one place. That place, of course, is Scotland. The Scots have fallen in love with this orange drink in a way that no other nation has, and that is why Irn Bru is Scotland's most popular soft drink.
The traditional Scottish Gaelic toast when raising a glass to say 'cheers' is Slàinte mhath which is pronounced slan-ge-var. In Scotland, going to the pub or meeting up for a friendly drink is very much part of our culture.
Scotch whisky (Scottish Gaelic: uisge-beatha; Scots: Scots whisky/whiskie, whusk(e)y, pronounced [ˈʍɪski], often simply called whisky or Scotch) is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two), made in Scotland. All Scotch whisky was originally made from malted barley.
Cratur/Craitur - The Scots and Irish word for creature or beast is another that's used for whisky.
WHAT IS SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRINK? Whisky! (Although IRN BRU likes to think of itself as Scotland's 'other national drink' too).
Irish immigrants arriving in Australia looking for labour gained a reputation as heavy drinkers and fighters, with 'blue' being local slang for a fight. The term evolved to come to mean a redheaded Irishman.
The term "redhead" likely comes from the simple need to refer to redheads in English before orange used was to describe the color. In other words, humans were describing redheads before they were describing anything as being the color orange. So, it just stuck.
The odds of a person having both of those recessive traits is around 0.17%. Instead, most redheads have brown, hazel or green eyes, according to Medical Daily.
From Middle English gingere, alteration of gingivere, from Old English gingifer, gingiber (influenced by Old French gingembre), from Medieval Latin gingiber, zingiber, from Latin zingiberi, from Late Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera), from Sanskrit शृङ्गवेर (śṛṅgavera) ( ...