The word 'laddie' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an affectionate term used to refer to a young man or boy, usually one who is dear to you. For example, "My son is my little laddie."
Grandage elicits beautifully unforced comic performances from Ron Cook, whose pint-sized Pistol has a smack of the disreputable actor laddie, and from Matt Ryan, who captures the deliciously comic combination of quaint pedantry and self-conscious dignity in this professional Welshman Fluellen.
"The bed's not aired, we've none of your favourite marmalade and the laddie come to do the cupboards in the spare room has left the most fearful mess".
Shankly half opened it and said, "Aye, laddie, what do you want?
The message is very clear: there is no such thing as safe sex for a soldier overseas so, laddie, keep your mind on your pure young girlfriend at home and say no.
"I'm just an ordinary laddie.
Then the probe, which goes by the acronym Ladee (pronounced laddie), will take a death plunge into the rocky surface of the subject it is studying.
Offstage, he looked the part, wearing broad-brimmed hats and long coats and scarves, ideal casting when he took over as the bibulous actor-laddie Selsdon Mowbray in the National Theatre's delirious revival of Michael Frayn's Noises Off in 2000 on its transfer to the Comedy (now the Harold Pinter), via the Piccadilly.
Not that he ever went about like an old actor-laddie, even though he had the physique to carry it off.
"Suckie-laddie," Agnes calls him.
Of special note, and new to me, is an untitled installation, first made in 1971, by Laddie John Dill: a wall-hugging dune of beach sand that surrounds and supports standing, angled squares of plate glass in two sizes.
McEwan mixed and matched spirits to create new expressions like Laddie Classic, a mid-priced introductory Scotch, and Black Art, a mysterious and expensive multi-vintage release.
