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L O W L A N D S - L - 16 December 2011 - Volume 03<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font> </font></p>From:<span></span><span></span><span></span><span> Sa</span><span class="gD">ndy Fleming</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:fleemin@live.co.uk">fleemin@live.co.uk</a></span><span></span><div>
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Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Names" 2011.12.14 (06) [EN]</span><br><span class="gI">
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</span>> From:<span></span><span> </span><span><span>Tomás Ó Cárthaigh</span> <span><a href="mailto:tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com" target="_blank">tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com</a></span></span><span></span><div>
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> Subject: <span>LL-L "Names" 2011.12.14 (06) [EN]</span><br><span><br></span><span></span>> 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.<br><br>> 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?<br><br>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.<br><br>In the east of Scotland where I was brought up, it's not heard.<br><br>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 :)<div class="yj6qo ajU"><div id=":te" class="ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="ajT" src="images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><br>
<span></span><span></span><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888">Sandy Fleming<br><a href="http://scotstext.org/" target="_blank">http://scotstext.org/</a></font></span><div>
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