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by arethuza 677 days ago
An interesting example is "weans" vs "bairns" for children... first time I heard the former I had no idea what people were talking about. "Weans" seems to be a shortened form of "wee ains" and "bairns" is from Old English:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bairn

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She's turned the weans against you mate aye?