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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Scottish English
| What is the pronunciation of Scottish words such as: faither; cairt; raither; yaird ? | Scottish English
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Same sound as in gate. Scottish does not always signal the differences in pronunciation with Standard English. Broun, flouer, hous and mous are actually pronounced with the oo of soon , and not with the sound of loud as they are in English. Not the ou of soul either.
| Mull, hull, whup and whustle would not have a u in English but an ___? | Scottish English
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i. Other examples are wrunkle for wrinkle and whurl for whirl.
| What is the consonant that is dropped from the English model in words such as: fummle; grummle; mummle and trummle ? | Scottish English
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b. The dropping of B after m is much more frequent in Scottish than in English. English leaves the b unpronounced in lamb, dumb, comb, etc. but still writes it. Other consonants that create funny effects are: r that often changes position within the word: buRnt becomes bRunt and keRb becomes cRib.The other way round: scRatch becomes scaRt and and chRisten becomes kiRsen.
| How do Scots pronounce the ei that occurs in eivil, seiven, streitch and weit? | Scottish English
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sound as in feet. Other basic phonetic rules are that British English all mostly becomes aw, also spelled aa. Examples: baw, caw, faw and waw for ball, call, fall and wall.
| Many songs about bonnie lasses in the Scottish musicial tradition. But what exactly is a 'bonnie lass'? | Scottish English
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a pretty girl. It's a mistaken belief that all bonnies are 'over the Ocean' in America these days.
| Haggis is eaten with neips (also spelled neeps) and tatties. Tatties are potatoes of course, but what are neips? | Scottish English
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turnips. As should be clear from the name cock-a-leekie soup neips are not leeks. Cabbage is Scottish keil and comparable with English kale. In spite of all the horror stories about the haggis the dish can be neatly presented and charmingly arranged as a kind of yellow, brown, white national 'flag'. Probably Scottish nouvelle cuisine.
| The wide-spread surname Halliday is of Scottish origin. What does it mean? | Scottish English
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holiday. Possibly a foundling (abandoned orphan) found on a holiday.
dull and dreary. There is also a Scottish word draik that means 'wet weather'.
| Baxter is another wide-spread surname of Scottish origin. What profession does it refer to? | Scottish English
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The weather is extremely clement today. As Harry Lauder used to say “It’s a braw, bricht, moonlicht nicht, the nicht” or “It’s a beautiful bright moonlit night tonight” Braw means lovely, delightful as I’m sure the Braw Lads and Lasses of Galashiels would agree. http://www.galashiels.border-net.co.uk/gathering/week.html
Thanks to larkydarky for that one.
Tell tale. A clipe is someone who runs to tell authority whenever they see someone doing something they shouldn’t be doing. It can also be used as a verb as in “Mum! He cliped on me!” tizzie741 has obviously been cliped on in the past!
It’s a roundabout. Dundee is full of these junctions, known elsewhere in Britain as roundabouts, but to Dundonians they’re “Circles”. They’re certainly circles to tizzy741
Whisky. Uisge-beatha is the Gaelic word for whisky, or water of life. larkydarky is the expert here.
Eat it. You would eat it raw. Syboes are spring onions (or green onions in the US), delicious in salads. maygrayuk could tell you all about them.
You were extremely muddy. You would have been having a fine old time jumping in puddles or something, and caked in mud. Thanks to maygrayuk for this one.
No. A numpty is a fool, an idiot. There’s nae numpties in Scotland the Brains is there Ianser?
His slippers. There’s nothing like slipping your feet in a pair of warm comfy baffies after a hard day at work. They are slippers, as tizzy741 can tell you.
They are angry, get out of their way.. If someone is beelin they are annoyed, angry even. It is usually modified by the adverb fair (which in this case means very) - “She’s been stood up by that numpty and now she’s fair beelin” translates as “She has been left waiting for her beau, and now she is extremely annoyed”.
Go to the dentist and get a new set of false teeth. It would be time to start making soup and custard, until your grandad managed to get a new set of false teeth from his dentist. Hopefully maygrayuk’s teeth are in perfect working order!
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