LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 14.MAY.2000 (02) [E]

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From: Thomas [t.mcrae at uq.net.au]
Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 13.MAY.2000 (01) [E]

> Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 13.MAY.2000 (01) [E]
John Tait wrote...
> Strange how sounds are perceived differently from another perspective (I
> live near Aberdeen). Is "Whot is't" the phrase which I would have written

> as 'Fit's at?'?

I picked up the phrase while serving in the Territorial Army in the mid
50's
when our Edinburgh Company did annual training with an Aberdeen Company, it

was definitely 'Whot is't they used as us sophisticated Edinbourgeousie
used
to joke about it.
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae
Brisbane Australia
"Oh wid some power the Giftie gie us
Tae see oorselves as ithers see us"
Robert Burns--

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Language varieties

I caught the end of a TV programme about the US/Canada relationship this
evening. It included a new ? Molson commercial for US TV in which the
presenter, before declaring "I am a Canadian" says "I say `about', not
`aboot'" [cartoon boot]. He pronounces "about" in a purely US/BE way.

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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