N is for nowt

No, not nothing! Nowt is a Doric word for cattle as you'll see in J C Milne's poem about being a ploughman rather than a cattleman.

NAE NOWT FOR ME

Nae nowt for me;
For, aince I leave the Memsie skweel,
I'll be a strappin' foreman chiel',
And drive a bonny weel-matched pair,
Big fite horses wi' silken hair.........

These fine specimens were enjoying the fine afternoon today at Skillymarno near Strichen. They are such inquisitive creatures, all lining up along the barbed wire fence to take a look at this daft wifie with a camera who had stopped at the side of the road! The barbed wire is for Freuchie!