October 31, 2019
Why Homo sapiens Trumpus died out
October 6, 2019
Origin of the Scots Language
explained firstly in English –
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and now, for comparison, the same video narrated in Scots –
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September 21, 2019
Around the world in 14 accents
Linguistic tour starts at 1:31
I gotta say, Dunc, that little Canadian spud might be more Scottish than thu.
September 14, 2019
New Meanings
September 11, 2019
New Words
August 11, 2019
What does your name mean?
July 31, 2019
Talkin’ aboot wir language
when we buried my partner a few weeks ago, I addressed the mourners gathered at her graveside
at the pub afterwards, several folk commented on how scottish I had sounded
this didn’t surprise me – since I moved to England 35 years ago, I have dropped uniquely scottish words from my vocabulary and adopted english instead of scottish pronunciation of common words so folk can understand what I’m saying, but when I’m angry, stressed, or emotional I unconsciously slip back into using scottish words and pronunciation, so I found this ted talk on the scottish language interesting – his early school experience exactly mirrored my own
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