The Kintyre Forum

Old words - and phrases disappear so quickly, don't they?
Just the other day I - without thinking about it used one that my late mother used often, "speedy karant" Of course I have no idea how it might be correctly spelt, but the way the second word was pronounced sounded like "kuRANT"
My cousin, Robert Gillies, tells me that karant means a fit of some kind, but my mother used it to relate the news of someone's death - eg "poor ould Jamie, he got a speedy karant".
This made me think of the late Ian Stewart's wife who one day told Robert and I that shortly after she arrived in the toon she heard a visitor who had
just had a cup of coffee with them in the kitchen say, "Ah'll jeest
sine they cups oot an lee them in the jaabox."
Of course you will all know what she meant - won't you!
TR

My Dad was a plumber and used to use ja'box all the time especially when
it was our bath time.......

Never hear the word sine used instead of rinse anwhere except Campbeltown.

Used sine in Glasgow and Fife.