LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 13.MAY.2000 (01) [E]

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From: John M. Tait [jmtait at altavista.net]
Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 06.MAY.2000 (01) [E]

Thomas wrote:

>Examples of Aberdonian include "Whot is't" and my favourite "Fewtroot"
>(that's how it sounds) which actually means 'ferret'.

Strange how sounds are perceived differently from another perspective (I
live near Aberdeen). Is "Whot is't" the phrase which I would have written
as 'Fit's at?'? And the other word is usually  written 'Fittret' or
'Futtret' - I'm aware neither of a diphthong in the first syllable nor an
'oo' sound in the second - it seems to me to be [fVtr at t]. (The word
actually means 'weasel' but is also used of ferrets. In Shetlandic it is
'whitrat' [W3tr at t] and means 'stoat'.)

John M. Tait.

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