LL-L: "Grammar" LOWLANDS-L, 24.DEC.1999 (01) [E]

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From: John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Grammar" LOWLANDS-L, 23.DEC.1999 (01) [E/S]

I have heard 'youse' used by a Londoner living in my area, and as it is not
particularly characteristic of Scots in this area I assumed it was part of
his own dialect. Obviously he must have picked it up somewhere else.

The 'us' = 'me' thing is very characteristic of Scots, and 'gie's' is just
one example. Some dialects seem to use it very widely, others not so much.
In my part of Shetland it's almost unknown, apart from 'gie's'.

John M. Tait.

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