LL-L "Lexical usage" 2003.02.03 (05) [E/S]

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Lexical usage"

> From: John M. Tait <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk>
> Subject: Scots Vocabulary.
>
> Would anyone like to comment on the use of the word 'orra' in the
> following
> quotations from recent Scots publications?
>
> 'The meenister gied oot the orra answer but maistlins she screivit aw the
> questions doon.

This is yiblins a ower-líteral tak on 'orra' = 'occasional', duin in
ignorance o the ither meanins o the wird. 'Antrin' micht be a better wird
here, micht it no?

I dout ye micht weel girn aboot the uise o 'scrieve' here an aa!

> 'Fae the submissions ingaithered, it is evident that
> monolingualism has been
> lookit on by British society as the orra standart.'

I'v nae idea what this micht mean. The hale sentence isna vera guid Scots bi
ony standard.

> 'In his submission, Matthew Fitt states there gey few weys Scots is or can
> be teachit in the noo: (1) lippenin on the orra lane teacher takkin an
> interest in Scots, '

This I wad tak tae mean that surplus teachers could tak a interest in Scots,
or something like that.

> ' Integration o initiatives is best won til wi the oncome o a Leids Policy
> for Scotland (see Australia an Sooth Africa), that estaiblishes an orra
> framewark for the bringin oot o the leids o Scotland an for their
> provision
> in education, local government an ither public sectors.'

What rubbish is this?! My automatic translíterâtion progrà m wad mak a better
job o'd!

> (Thon anes aa frae the 'licht' translate o the recent report ti the
> education, cultur an sport comatee.)

Oh ay! I'm tryin tae keep my neb oot o aa that!

> The raison I'm spierin is at I canna lift thae meanins ava, an
> I'm wonderin
> if this is hou 'orra' is uised in Central dialects, or if it's no uised in
> thae dialects nou, an thir uisses is awin ti  fause analogy wi English
> 'odd' - tho that wadna expone aa the uisses abuin.

I'v never heard 'orra' uized in Central dialecks ava - mibbie this could
explain hou it's gotten fanklet here!

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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