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You might find this interesting too: wean [wayn, ween] (plural weans) n young child: a child, especially a young one (regional) [Late 17th century. Contraction of wee ane ; ane a dialect form of one .] :-)

Oi yourself I've answered

Oi Question has been asked come on HARRY lovely BELAFONTE lol Yeah lovely singing doing anything lol no not that one but it was a goodie he didnt sing in it lol..

Only know one Pat Carmen Jones know him better as a singer than actor

yes I think they do, :-)

Oh Sorry Humph forgot the company I was in, I aint proper never have been lol......I posted a Question lol

Thanks Lucia....do thay say bairns up your way? definitely don't on the West coast of Scotland

WOW Lucia that is amazing so it aint Scottish then, never heard it until Christine said it, weans never heard either. Jamaicans use sucklings and pickneys yuck. Dont like none of that OK Question then LOVELY Harry Belafonte yummy. dreaming now....................

Christine and Pat, Have you seen my post below??

Think its an old Scots word Pat must have travelled oer the border...Newcastle's not that far from Edinburgh! Honestly john I've NEVER seen a Bond film...not my kind of stuff

We never spoke "slang" as children. We was brought up to speak proper Humph

Come on Pat you must have a question?

Yeah but they say people who can remember facts aint clever just got the memory. IQs are different aint they? problem and puzzle solving with the rest, wonder where I would come, I think I might be too embarrased to try.

Pat, from my dictionary: bairn bairn [bairn] (plural bairns) n Scotland Northern England child: a young child [Old English bearn . Ultimately from an Indo-European word meaning ‘to carry, bear children’, which is also the ancestor of English bear, bring, suffer, and metaphor.] :-)

No Pat that was off the TV TEst The Nation programme...hardly a real IQ test! I"m ok on general knowledge but never likely to make Mensa! LOL

Right ok confused, weans as a weaned infant ok but bairns? and it crossed the border then? is it celtic or slang?

I think I can say you must be Bond fans! Judi Dench is the current M John Cleese replaced the original Gadget whiz Q, Desmond Lleweyll, and yes Mrs Bond was Diana Rigg, shot dead in the closing scenes "On His Majesty's Service" the only time a Bond film ended that way as usually Bond ends up with the girl.

Pat I was just PMSL at Freds post...true you have to watch what they say in front of the bairns They say Bairns in Newcastle too...Don't in Glasgow though. Glasgow say the same as Northern Ireland Weans (pronounced wains)!!

Where did you get that Christine? They say people like us who have all these facts thingys are not necessarily brainy??? yes I think they meant me there lol. Oh thats good Im alright then?.

Well Christine, I know that there are four parts of intelligence but forgot what they are. Anyway IQ tests don't measure all of these parts so they are inaccurate..that's all I know about it. Lucia :-)