The English Language in Scotland: An Introduction to ScotsThe English language as it is used in Scotland has a genuine claim to be considered one of the important varieties of English in the world today. Scots has also had a major influence outwith its home territory, notably in Ulster and, to a smaller, but no less important extent, in Canada and Australia where both vocabulary and grammatical features of Scots can be found to this day. |
Contents
The Syntax of Modern Scots | 9 |
The Sounds of Scottish English and their Structure | 23 |
The Meaning | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
A.J. Aitken Aberdeen accent Aitken appear areas back vowel British English Central Belt century characteristic Class male Class usage cliticised common consonantal contexts contrast diphthong diphthongisation distinctive English language English spoken especially feature females fricative front Gaelic gender Glasgow Glasgow speakers Glaswegian glottal stop grammar Highland English homophonous instance kind language in Scotland linguistic London Lowland Scots Macafee Middle Class speakers Middle Scots modal verbs Modern Scots morphemes morphology non-standard North-East Northern Isles nouns older speakers perhaps phonetic phrase plural prestige pronounced recognised regional dialect Scots dialects Scots Language Scots speakers Scottish English Scottish Language Scottish Literary Scottish Standard English Scottish Vowel Length sentence social class sociolinguistic sound in words Southern speak speech spelling spoken in Scotland stigmatised suffix symbol syntax Ulster Scots Varieties of English versus vocabulary vowel in words Vowel Length Rule Vowel Shift vowel sound
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Anglo-American Awareness: Arpeggios in Aesthetics Gisela Hermann-Brennecke,Wolf Kindermann Limited preview - 2005 |
The Edinburgh Companion to Scots John Corbett,J. Derrick McClure,Jane Stuart-Smith Snippet view - 2003 |