In the sense in which I believe you are using it, it is.
"There's a wee roundabout just ahead" I said to an Australian once, and he and his wife both collapsed in giggles (which is a wee bit dangerous at 70 mph) and said "You said 'wee'! People really say 'wee'!"
My Bloody English Family are always accusing me of affecting Scottishness when I say "wee". Funnily enough, they don't even notice the other smatterings of Scottish English and Scots I've acquired (because I have after all lived here for ten years) - "wee" is a talismanically Scottish word, wheras "juice" for fizzy drink isn't.
Well, it wasn't so much I that used it as most people I met during the weekend and several large billboards at Prestwick. I don't think I ever heard it used while down in Manchester.
Aye. And apparently it's a very South-Island-of-New-Zealand word too. Then again, just look at the placenames around the south end -- "Invercargil", "Dunedin"...
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Date: 2004-09-06 08:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-06 09:01 am (UTC)"There's a wee roundabout just ahead" I said to an Australian once, and he and his wife both collapsed in giggles (which is a wee bit dangerous at 70 mph) and said "You said 'wee'! People really say 'wee'!"
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