LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 14.AUG.2000 (04) [S]

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From: Sandy Fleemin [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Language varieties"

> From: Andy Eagle [Andy.Eagle at t-online.de]
> Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 13.AUG.2000 (01) [E]
>
> The nearest I know of where a /t/ may become /d/ is in elided 'it' in
o't,
> wi't etc. which it many east coast dialects becomes o'd, wi'd etc.

For a wonder, Andy, ye'v awa an answered a question A wis juist awa ti
ask!

A haed been writin this as "o't", "wi't" &c in ma Scots because A
thocht it
wis mair standart, tho it bathered me hivin ti chynge something that's
that
weel-kent in ma airt. Houever, A'v been readin "The Cherrie & the Slae"
&
fund that Alexander Montgomerie uizes it aa the time, eg:

Mair wilfull, than skilfull,
  To flie I was so fond:
Desyring, Impyring,
  And sa was sene upond.

an:

Thairfoir now, no moir now,
  Lat him think to conceild:
For quhy now, evin I now,
  Am detbound to reveild.

A thocht wi sicna grand pedigree A micht start pittin this back inti ma
ain
writin, A juist wantit ti ken what aa airts it wis said in!

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
  Things in this subloonary warld bein far frae
perfeck, 'No that bad' is the maist that mortal
man can venture tae say while here ablo.
             - Catherine P. Slater, 'Marget Pow'

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