LL-L 'Names' 2010.12.16 (03) [EN]

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From: Sandy Fleming fleemin at live.co.uk
    Subject: LL-L "Names" 2011.12.14 (06) [EN]

> From: Tomás Ó Cárthaigh tomasocarthaigh at yahoo.com
   > Subject: LL-L "Names" 2011.12.14 (06) [EN]

> On a distict note prompted by the topic of accents touched on in the
postes below... to an Irish ear their is a sound contiunuum between
northern Irish to Scots, Scots to Northern English (Geordie) to Flemish in
particular the Gent and Antwerp dialects, all have the same singsong
quality to them, in highest form in Scotland and Ireland and lower in
Northern England and Flanders.

> Would this date from the Flemish settlements up to the Williamite wars?
Or prehaps does it predate the Celts and the Picts or a hangover from the
origional Belgae?

I'd say this sing-song quality is, in Scotland, confined more to the west
of the country, it's not heard in the east, as I remember from visiting
cousins in Glasgow as a child and noticing the sing-song, almost as if
every sentence were a question, and then subsequently noticed in Geordie,
Sunderland, Liverpudlian and Irish dialects.

In the east of Scotland where I was brought up, it's not heard.

A particular Fleming stronghold is Biggar in Lanarkshire, I believe, which
is very central in an east-west sense, so it might be interesting to know
what the dialect is like there. I was there this year, but of course didn't
hear anything  :)

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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