LL-L: "Grammar" LOWLANDS-L, 09.JAN.2000 (05) [E/S]

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From: Sandy Fleiman [sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk]
Subject: "Grammar"

> 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'.

I wadna think on "us" as equal wi "me" in Scots - for masel, onywey, "me" is
"iz" [Iz] an "us" is "us" [Vs], an "me" is the emphatic form o "iz", e.g.:

"They telt iz it wis aither him or me." (They told me it was either him or
me.)

Uise o "us" for "me" seems ti me ti be Geordie raither nor Scots - tho A
dout "iz" startit oot as "us" in Lowden/Borders Scots an syne wis
differentiatit.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
http://www.fleimin.demon.co.uk

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