Would like some help with Scottish accent please

[Flattybasher9]

Girls were always called "quines" and still are here.

Malky

[jaybelnz]

My Two Scottish Grandmothers & Grandfathers, plus my Scottish Mum & Dad, plus all my Scottish relative's always called me and my girl cousins bonnie wee lass or bonnie wee lassie! (Unless I was in trouble of course) - I still do the same with my own daughter, my Grandaughter, and now my wee great Grandaughter! 

[jaybelnz]

Girls were always called "quines" and still are here.

Malky

Aberdeen perchance??   

[Skoosh]

Lassies in Glasgow! 

Skoosh.

[Mart 'n' Al]

"Gin a body meet a body,
Comin' through the rye
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?
Ilka lassie has a laddie
Nane, they say, ha'e I
Yet a' the lads they smile at me
When comin' through the Rye."

If Lassie was good enough for Robbie Burns, it's good enough for me.

Martin

[rosie17]

Girls were always called "quines" and still are here.

Malky

Aberdeen perchance??   

Yes the Granite City and Loonies for boys 

Rosie

[jaybelnz]

"Gin a body meet a body,
Comin' through the rye
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?
Ilka lassie has a laddie
Nane, they say, ha'e I
Yet a' the lads they smile at me
When comin' through the Rye."

If Lassie was good enough for Robbie Burns, it's good enough for me.

Martin

👍👍👍  Me too . RIGHT ON Martin. 

I have two very favourite books re the life, loves and times of Robert Burns, written by James Barke.  They're written in the form of a novel, which makes them very interesting and easy to read.

"The Wind that Shakes The Barley" and "The Song In The Green Thorn Tree!" Both fantastic reads! with plenty of Burns' poetry.  I've tried to source some more of James Barke's books from our NZ librarIies - but no joy here.  😟  Amazon have a few I think, but they're pretty expensive!

I am also lucky enough to have the writings of my Great Grandfather Whitefield Watson, who also wrote poetry in the vernacular and was a lover of Burns, and some of the writings are speeches and analysis of Burn's poetry given at his local Burns Club here in NZ! 

[Rosinish]

Girls were always called "quines" and still are here.

"Quine" is an example of slang or different county usage;

"Scottish slang word Definition Quine A young girl, lassie Quine (Especially in Aberdeen)"

The quote still ponts back to the scottish word 'lassie'

Nowadays, I suppose people are more proper in speech i.e. more likely to use 'girrl' as Guy mentioned but overall a scottish girl was/is & always will be a lassie or (older) wummin/wifey 

Annie

[hurworth]

A braw wee lassie frae Eastcheap, perhaps?

Was she staying there or just biding a while?

She probably lived there for a while.  She was born in Elizabethan England.  A daughter and a son had Scottish spouses.  She outlived her English first husband (it was his second marriage) then married a landed Scottish widower and outlived him as well.  According to burial records she is buried with her first husband in England.  By then James was the King of England, Scotland and Ireland.