Lorraine Kelly - The Exclusive 'We' in Scotland Wot Does Talk In A Particular Way...
Lorraine Kelly is sadly past her sell-by date. We used to really like her - sympathising heartily when she wept on the last instalment of TV-am, etc. But her style is cloying, sickly sweet and out of place now and, on St George's Day 2021, she actually echoed Nicola Sturgeon. Accused, unjustly, of neglecting to mention St George's Day on her little TV show, she responded: 'Keep the heid,' as we say in Scotland.' Well, as Rudyard Kipling said, 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs...' But 'keep the heid'? It comes from 'keep your head on,' a highly popular phrase years ago across England, and still in use to a lesser degree today, which is used as a retort when somebody is perceived as being unreasonably stressed or irate. But Lorraine couldn't simply say that. Nicola Sturgeon likes dialect too - also trotting out the 'Keep the heid' motif, but who else says that in Scotland? My friends Mos and Rashida...