This is a song that I wrote for fun in July 2013 that consists of a mixture of made-up words and words from Shetland dialect. I try to sing it in a Scottish accent, but can't yet sing in a Shetland accent, unfortunately.
When the plookplooks are a plinkin upon their peerie goos
And the baagies are a birlin in their muckle shoes
Beware the mirdin owld masgooms and the oolin mooratoogs
For they will snorf your scobbins, and then slunk doon in the snoob
So put on your zamblated zoot hat and your flartled overflude
And then you'll feel richt flimpsome and ready for a plood
If the nories are a nigglin, just smeeg and steek your lugs
And then you can outlapple all their wenglit wugs.
If your peerie tings are tussin, don't twartle like a trow
Just twig and snorf some tabnab, then a twasperin you'll go
When it's time for tammy noddie, they'll troke and tresh aboot
But just let them trointle truely, and then they'll tarpool oot.
Here's a recording:
These are the words from Shetland dialect. The others are made-up.
A zoot hat is what you might where with a zoot suit, a type of suit that was popular in the 1940s in America that has high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long jacket with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. Such suits are often worn with a fedora or pork pie hat, though there's no reason why they shouldn't be accompanied by a zoot hat.
A wug is a made-up creature used in the wug test, which was devised by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958. It involves showing people a drawing of a made-up animal such as a wug, which is usually depicted as a bird-like creature, and telling them that it is a wug. Then they are shown two wugs and are promoted to say that there are two ...? The wug test is used with people with language impairments and tests their ability to apply a regular plural ending, even to made-up words.
Here's a more Shetland version of the first verse, using Shetland spellings and replacing the made-up words with Shetland words.
Whin da pikka maas ir a plinkin apo der peerie gues
An da baagies ir a birlin in der muckle shoes
Beware da mirdin owld masgooms an da oolin mooratoogs
For dey will swally dy scobbins, an den smoot aff for a soom.
Additional words:
The Elephant Song | When you get to jiggit | Chaos | Winter | Everyday adventures | Hints of Blossom | A Panda in a Poncho | Plinkin Plookplooks | Spollagyn son tey | How Many Roads? | A Gnu in My Shoe | A Hen in My Hat | The Ballad of the Wug and the Cra | La Plume de ma Tante | Ukuleles On The Shore | Echoes on the Tongue | Dardledumdue | It's Okay To Be Odd | Monday Morning | Tall Tales | Sail Across The Sky | Two Left Feet | Thunder River | Ning | Lazybones | Goats | The Toaster Song | Hello Hi Hey | Thingamajig | Jolly Yuletide | The Pliffploff | Bubbles | Distraction | Little Lions | The Little Green Owl | Pannas Owen | Seize The Day | Music in the Air | Pocket Hedgehogs | Dust | Lillilu | Lost in a Good Book | Quiet Please | Ffaldiral | Melting 😅 | That's When We'll Do That Thing | As Easy As | What Did I Come In Here For? | Upside Down | Thoir An Aire! | Ho Ha Hey | Patience | Time | Farewell | Stuff and Nonsense | Ruith Air Falbh / Run Away! | The Other Side | Colourless Green Ideas | Noodling | Off To Sea | Cats & Dogs | Terms & Conditions
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