This is a story Willie used to tell about when he first arrived in London....

When Willie went to London, he was careful to translate Dundee Scots into English for his new colleagues. "Fae" had to be "from", "tae" was "to" and "stanes" were "stones". So when the weather turned chilly one day and small pellets of ice rained down from the sky, he called his friends to the window to "look at the wholestones!".