LL-L "Music" 2001.11.19 (03) [E]

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From: "Barnaby Dellar" <barnaby_d at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Music" 2001.11.19 (02) [E]

Randy Elzinga wrote:

>Dear Lowlanders, Sometime within the last year, I purchased the CD "The
>World's Room" from a group called the Old Blind Dogs, which, according to
>the liner notes with the CD, hail from Aberdeen (or Aberdeenshire maybe?)
>in Scotland.

>After comparing the lyrics on the CD with some other Scots writing, it
>seems that the some lyrics on the CD look less like
>English than some of the writing I have seen that is Scots. Is there
>anybody on this list who is familiar with the group and the CD. If so, can
>you tell me if any or all of these songs are in Scots.

Well, it's hard to say whether something is in Scots, or if it's in
English
with Scots influence; there's no dividing line!

But the band are definitely using a lot of Doric, which is a dialect of
Scots, which would explain why it looks less like English than other
Scots -
it IS less like English! In general Scots, the "wh" sound is pronounced
a
bit like "hw", but in the North-East, this becomes "f" (sorry, I don't
know
any phonetic notation), hence "what" becomes "whit" in most Scots, but
"fit"
in Doric, to give but one example. It has also been a lot less Anglified
than many other Scots dialects.

Doric is still widely spoken in the North-East, and this is what the
band
are singing in. As to how influenced it is by English, I'll leave that
to
the Doric speakers here to answer!

Barnaby.

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