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Agnieszka | 12:47 Tue 13th Jul 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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Dae weel, an dout nae man. Dae weel, an dout nae man. Dae weel, an dout nae man. What does: "Dae weel, an dout nae man mean"?
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'Do well and doubt no man.' If there were a comma after 'nae', it could mean: 'Do well and doubt not, man'...ie 'have no doubts, my good fellow'.

(Where does the 'Gaelic' idea come from? This is just standard Scots lingo!)

What you have quoted is Lowland Scots dialect (a dialect of English); Gaelic is a completely different language in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European family (English is in the Germanic branch).
It could be Doric, the dialect of the north-east of Scotland, as well as Lallans or Lowland Scots. The particular words involved here are the same in both cases.

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