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Scotland the Brains - Scottish Words Quiz

This is a quiz created by team Scotland the Brains. How well do you know the words used by Scots?

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hmacca
Jul 10 08
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Scottish Sayings, Words and Phrases

Scottish sayings, words and phrases. Can you guess what they mean?

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t_s

Feb 09 08
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Basic Scottish Terminology

To understand the Scots, one has to know a few 'Scotticisms' - terms used in Scotland and less frequently used in the other parts of the U.K. Check your Scottish proficiency.

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flem-ish
Apr 06 02
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Scottish English

Scottish English derives from Germanic and not from Celtic. It is however certainly not degraded Standard English. This quiz is more about some similarities rather than about the differences.

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flem-ish
Jan 28 02
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This is category 17978
Last Updated Aug 08 12 5:15 PM

Some sample questions from this category:

* In all of these Scottish words you can replace the e by the same vowel and you obtain perfectly normal standard English words: gled; gless; seck; sterve. Which vowel must be inserted?
* What is the pronunciation of Scottish words such as: faither; cairt; raither; yaird ?
* Mull, hull, whup and whustle would not have a u in English but an ___?
* What is the consonant that is dropped from the English model in words such as: fummle; grummle; mummle and trummle ?
* How do Scots pronounce the ei that occurs in eivil, seiven, streitch and weit?

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