Scots and/or Irish American dialect
Lynne Murphy
M.L.Murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK
Fri Mar 5 11:19:39 UTC 2004
--On Thursday, March 4, 2004 9:37 pm -0600 Patti Kurtz
<kurtpatt4 at NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:
> Would a Scotsman say 'Ach!" (meaning "Ah!") That sounds more German to
> me than Scots. If not, what would he say instead?
Scots say it all the time.
NODE says:
dialect (chiefly Scottish) form of ah.
Ach, well, win some lose some.
But there's also _och_:
Scottish and Irish used to express a range of emotions, typically
surprise, regret, or disbelief
Och, you're kidding.
Lynne
Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Arts B133
University of Sussex
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