Scran

When it comes to food, or "scran" as it is known in the Navy, three meals are served on board daily. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A survey of 3,000 people revealed 90 percent of Britons could identify foreign words such as "hasta la vista -- the Spanish for" see you later "-- but only 34 percent knew" scran "was the Merseyside expression for food. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From Three Cliffs to the Britannia Inn, where do canny locals, visiting walkers and returning holidaymakers go for good, affordable scran? ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Scottish Telegraph has stuck a separatist haggis on the expenses story by homing in on Alex Salmond claiming £400 a month for food, including taxpayer-funded scran during the summer break. ❋ Jeff (2009)

With swanky flights, luxury hotels, gift books and a nice bit of scran to boot. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When I got out I had some scran that's what I did require, ❋ Unknown (1997)

But the same man set great store by that same baste -- bad scran to her! ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)

I've seen the glint in her eyes at the sound o 'your name, and the red go out of her cheek at word of them dratted yeos, bad scran to them! ❋ George A. Birmingham (1907)

Take care we don't cut the cable ourselves some day, bad scran to you! ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

Ye kin dye black wid Hickory bark, an 'orange (bad scran to it) wid the inner bark of Birch, an' yaller wid the roots av Hoop Ash, an 'a foine scarlet from the bark av the little root av ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

She's thinking of nothing but to get me out there again to be wounded so that she may spend my pension, bad scran to her! ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)

An 'wanst or twict in th' month th 'dogs'd come yelpin' acrost our little place, with lads follerin 'afther in r-red coats; f'r this Dorsey was a gr-reat huntsman, bad scran to his evil face. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)

They do be sayin 'she's come over because she's plazed with seein' estated gintlemen lave iverything and go out and be shot by thim bloody Boers, bad scran to thim! ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

Two of the boys is killed, and Loot'n't Boynton's wounded, -- and four others, -- but the women's all safe, and the agent -- bad scran to him! ❋ Charles King (1888)

Listen to me now, honey; here it is, on my knees I am before you, and throth it's not more nor three, may be four, young women I'd say the like to; bad scran to me if I wouldn't marry you out of a face this blessed morning just as soon as I'd look at ye. ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

"Bad scran to you, you unlucky hangin 'bone thief!" cried the widow, seizing him by the hair, and giving him a hearty cuff on the ear, which would have knocked him down, only that Oonah kept him up by an equally well-applied box on the other. ❋ Samuel Lover (1832)

"Why, then, your Reverence's honor, maybe I did make a bit of a mistake, sir" -- taking up the jug, and tasting its contents: "Hut! bad scran to me, but I did, beggin 'your honor's pardon; how-an-diver, I'll soon rightify that, your Reverence." ❋ William Carleton (1831)