Fetterangus Primary
Loons & Lassikies - New Rhymes Fur Auld
Annie Shirer Doric Workshop Wi Pauline Cordiner 17th March 2025

P1-4 Rhymes – rhymes created by the whole class and Pauline

The P1-4s and Pauline created a rhyme about where Fetterangus got its nickname, Fishie.
The story goes that eccentric Laird, Admiral Ferguson of Pitfour, wanted to build a canal from Peterhead to his land. The fowk of Fetterangus would get fish delivered from the Bloo Toon directly via the canal. Unfortunately the canal was never finished because the Fortmartine and Buchan Railway arrived.

We bide in Fetterangus
Fishie is oor skweel
The canal wis nivver built
Tae bring the fash in creels

The P1-4s and Pauline wrote a rhyme about what they like and what they don’t like!

Fan we get hame we like tae play
Fitba, Minecraft, Roblox
But we dinna like the bullies
Pickled ingins, mingin socks!

P4-7 Rhymes – rhymes created by the whole class and Pauline

Skweel is ower, simmer’s here
We’re aa on holiday
We’ll climb up trees, an brak a leg
An humsh oor gulsh aa day
An aa the loons an lassikies
Can camp, an sweem an play

(After Yule has come and yule has gane)

A grumphy hid a yokey dock
He scraitched it on the byre waa
Bit the byre hid a bumbee’s byke
An the scraitichin made it faa!

It landit on the dubby grun
Foggie bummers cam flyin oot
They stung him on the lugs and dowp
An aa gaed fleein up his snoot!

P4-7 Rhymes – rhymes created in groups based on Annie’s collected rhymes

We dinna like tae gang on lang walks ava
An a’ the talks, we are connached!
Finally we are hame
Noo I’m gaen tae hae a rest

(After Awa wi’ yer tattie, yer sowens and yer kail, by Sadie and Elspeth)

Fan it is gweed weather, bairns will gang oot tae play wi’ pals
Bairns will get dubby and cauld
So fan they gang hame,
They will fang fur a shoo’er!

(After When the breakers roar at Rattry Heid, by Peyton and Keira)

The young lassie, the young lassie, bade near the bay
And this young lassie she girned aa day
Stuart in the café fa sells auld baps
He pit rattans in her waldies
She grat an she girned and she slap’d Stuart
And really gied him laldie!

(After clash-pyottie, clash-pyottie, sits on the tree, by Iona, Molly and Ella)

In the morn, the grumphy awak tae a girse-louper up his snoot
it was fair ticklin’ and so he tried tae get him oot
But alas! He pushed him in
Awa the girse-louper went, a’ through his organs and slept

(After The tatties they hae a gane wrang, by Noah, Cody and Theo)

Pitter patter doon comes watter
Swooshin, gushing, blawn
A crack of fite
A rammie o bangs
An swishin swirlin snaain
(A storm)

(After White doo featherless cam doon frae Paradise, by Patrick, Gordon and Kai)

A mowdie an a mappie howkin awa in a tod hole
An then oot came loupin a brock and a tod
Chisen a mowdie an a mappie far awa
The mowdie an mappie loupin for their lives

(After Robbie Stobbie doon the glen, by Senna, Khloe and Ruby)

Here we swap twa chuckies
For een sheltie, shall we shak on it?

(After here’s my han and weel agreet, by Harry, Lewis and Callan)


Ay Scotsman name is the sae as a Bled
Bit if ye dippin me in I gie the shiverin
Fit am I?
(Pauline to find out what this is! I think it was going to be toes or fingers!)

(After Four and twenty white kye stanin in a raw, by Josh Lucans and Jude)