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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">===========================================<br>
L O W L A N D S - L - 13 January 2009 - Volume 02<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Thomas Mc Rae</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:t.mcrae@uq.net.au">t.mcrae@uq.net.au</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L Scots Dialect</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Reminiscing
about growing up with the Working Class Edinburgh Scots language reminds me of
how confusing it gets with unnecessary pre- and su- fixes.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">eg Large
becomes "shoodge big" and small "wee toatty". On we
go to referring to our upmost skeletal bitty as "a skull's heid",and
the overall</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">item as a
"deid skellingtun". Even more confusing is a strange use of
of "awful" to describe something as particularly significant for
either good or bad things.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">eg "It
wiz awfy guid.""He wiz awfy big," "He wiz awfy
cluvvur." "She's awfy boannie." Awful can also stress
negative items eg</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">"He
goat hurt awfy bad". "He goat awfy drunk." "She wiz awfy
seek wi 'er stumick". "Ah'm awfy thursty"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Then we
have the diminutive suffix "i.e." which often lengthens the word concerned
eg bairn becomes "bairnie"; school lunches, known as school dinners,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">become
"dinneries", my parents always referred to the mobile ice
cream van as "the icie". A concert given by the local tap dancing
school was a "Coanie", and </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">a bonfire
became "a boanie". </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">My
Australian wife was particularly amused at the way Scots can enlarge a
simple tale to an epic. In the best Bardic tradition a short account of
someone's visit to,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">say,
another town can get really tortuous. We will get a vast genealogy as
the tale unwinds, "Aye he wiz Sandy's brother's school pal whaise mither
ran away wi' a kiltie.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Cannae</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> blame 'er mind 'er man wiz a right drinker. Efter she left
'e stoapped drinkin' an tuik up gowf, wun przes tae. Now his auntie...."
Some time in a good tale we invariably have the account of a wedding of
yesteryear complete with meal menu that will start with "We hud
soo-oop....." Eventually we get to the crux of the matter, simple short
account of how the narrator went to Perth
and bought an awfy nice handbag. By then, like Dr Who, we have travelled
long and far through Time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> I was
delighted to find when I visited Scotland after over 30 years
absence that such a language not been crushed by Globalisation. Hardly classic Lowlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Scots but
the language of a very real and genuine people.</span></p>
<span style="word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">Regards</span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tom
Mc Rae</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Brisbane</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">AUSTRALIA</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">"Oh
wad some power the Giftie gie us,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Tae
see oorsels as ithers see us</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Robert
Burns</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">----------<br>
<br>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span></span>Language varieties<br>
<br>
Folks,<br>
<br>
To get a load of what oor Tom is talking about there, please check out his
growing collection of tales in the very variety:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_tales.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/mcrae_tales.php</a><br>
<br>
Yes, more will be added.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span></p>
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