reej, rege, reejeenouncurrencya pound note20-: It’s gonnae tak’ us twenty reejes tae feek tae t’ither vile. And twenty reej back doon again. [It is going to cost twenty pounds to get to the other town. And twenty pounds back again.]20- Compare regeetymology: origin obscure; collected by EMcC/PS; attested by CH and BS in TDITA; form rege only attested by SRnote:
Form reej attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) with the same meaning, but this must surely be an historical memory.