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Queer in Scots - Is There an Equivalent?
There is no currently accepted equivalent of queer in scots, and i can't think of a scots specific slur that could be reclaimed in the same way. There are m there are scot's words that have similar meanings that i'm quite interested in, and that don't have the same kind of slur history. One word is uncle, or uncl an, which, if folk have an interest in language, they might spot the germanic roots in that. So uncle means strange, and that has strange meaning of queer in it. Another word is antren, which is a word for unusual or occasional, a thing that happens occasionally. But probably my favourite word, which i