The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Scotland’s youngest Covid patient Peyton celebrates first birthday
A baby believed to have been Scotland’s youngest Covid-19 patient is celebrating her first birthday at the end of March.
Peyton Maguire, who was born eight weeks premature, was diagnosed with coronavirus at just three weeks old.
Peyton is set to turn one on March 26, with parents Tracy and AJ saying she is thriving after the fantastic care she had at University Hospital Wishaw in NHS Lanarkshire.
Peyton’s story of survival made headlines across the world and her parents, from Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, joke their daughter is now a “wee diva”, who loves to wave at folk.
Mrs Maguire said: “She’s full of energy and we’re delighted how good her health has been since she left hospital.
“She’s started toddling about with the help of a walker and she said her
first proper word the other day, ‘Daddy’, of course!”
Peyton was delivered by c-section after Tracy was diagnosed with preeclampsia, a condition that affects pregnant women, following an appointment with her community midwife.
The newborn was being cared for in an incubator when the new parents
were told the alarming news Peyton had tested positive for Covid-19.
“We’ve been in so many papers, magazines and TV shows,” Mrs Maguire said, “but the most worthwhile thing her story has led us to do was taking part in the virtual Scottish Neonatal Nurses Group Annual Conference, where I shared my experience with NHS staff.”
The Scottish phrase ‘doing your dinger’ has been included in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Language experts added the term for losing your temper to the tome in an update published earlier this week.
The official entry states that “to go or do one’s dinger” is a Scottish colloquial expression which means “to get extremely angry or passionate; to lose one’s temper; to rant and rave”.
The dictionary’s researchers found one of the first mentions of the saying was in the 1950 film The Gorbals Story about a young artist living in a Glasgow slum.
The dictionary also cited a recent mention of the name in a newspaper interview by former Rangers player Billy Dodds to show it is still in common use among Scots.
The ex-striker was speaking in 2018 about how he and team-mate Neil Mccann used to play pranks on Bert van Lingen, manager Dick Advocaat’s assistant at the Ibrox club.
He said: “Neil and I grabbed Bert’s training kit lying outside his room, ripped it up and chucked it down the hall. Bert was doing his dinger: ‘Who did this? I know it was Dodds. I know it was Mccann’.”
The dictionary also said the phrase can mean “to do something in a vigorous or boisterous fashion” in both Scotland and Northern Ireland.
In a blog post about the new entries, Jonathan Dent, the dictionary’s revision editor, said: “Nearly 750 existing entries have been subjected to the freshening attentions of our team of researchers, editors, etymologists, and bibliographers, and over 700 new words, senses, phrases, and compounds have been added to the dictionary.”