Scottish birthday lines
Pick a line, copy it into a card or a message, or send it as a free Scottish card. Each one says where it comes from.
We'd pick one line, write the name above it, and add a sentence of our own underneath so it sounds like you.
May the friends of our youth be the companions of our old age.
Là breith sona dhuit
Happy birthday.
Slàinte mhath!
Good health!
Lang may yer lum reek!
Long may your chimney smoke: a wish for a warm home and plenty.
May the best ye've ever seen be the worst ye'll ever see. May the moose ne'er leave yer girnal wi' a tear-drap in its ee.
A girnal is a grain store: may a mouse never leave yours with a tear in its eye, because it was always full.
Here's tae us; wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a' deid.
Here's to us; who's like us? Rather few, and they're all dead.
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