SAWNIES—Simple fooak.
SCAR—Whar t’ fells is brokken oot, an’ o’ covered with gurt rough stians.
SCAW-HEED—A painful disease about the head and ears.
SCUFTER, SCUFTEREN—A sharp shower. It come a bit ov a scufter. We war scufteren aboot leadin’ hay.
SCUMFISH, SCUMFISHEN, SCUMFISHT—Thoo wad scumfish yan wi’ thi bacca reek. It’s varra scumfishen an’ clooase. Ah was near scumfish’t as neea matter i’ yon whol.
SCREES—Rough stoney ground on a mountain side, such as Red Screes, on the west side of Kirkstone.
SCRAFFLE—Struggle. He’ll scraffle through someway, Ah’st warnd him.
SCRATTIN-ON—Only a poor puttin-on, and that obtained with difficulty. We’re scrattin-on as weel as we can.
SCOW-BANK-(Oh! that the genius of word describing would co’ here!) A laal barn ’at’s laid on it’s back throwing it’s legs up, an’ laiken wi’ t’ teeas—that’s scow-bankin. A gurt barn ’at ligs aboot t’ hay-mew, an’ sleddurs aboot wi’ his shun lowse, neea necklath on, an’ doesn’t care a brass farden which end gahs t’ first seea lang as he’s easy—he’s a gurt idle scow-bank.
SCRAN—Food. Isn’t this another frae t’ Celtic fringe? Ah wadn’t be capt.