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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2008.03.22 (02) [E]

How are Scots "ui", "eu" and "ae" pronounced exactly?

Ingmar

From: Andy Eagle <andy at scots-online.org>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2008.03.21 (10) [E]

Old English long o in Scots  became /ø/ and later also /y/ in older Scots
(Many Old French loans with <u(i)> also merged with the realisations of
this
vowel). Before /k/ and /x/ this developed to /j(u)/ or /j(ʌ)/ although
after
/r/ it generally became /u/ or /ʌ/. The older /ø/ and /y/still occurs in
peripheral dialects. Later forms such as /i/ and /e/ developed. The /i/
form
remaining in Northern Scots, becoming /wi/ after /g/ and /k/ in the North
East, and before /r/ it often became /u/. In a later development,
originating in Lothian and now wide-spread,  the original long vowel
(except
before /k/ and /x/) became /e:/ before /v, ð, r, z, ʒ/, zero and /#/,
otherwise short /ɪ/–/ɪ̈/.

Examples:

bluid (blood), buird (board), cuil (cool), duin (done), guid (good), muin
(moon), muir (moor), puir (poor), schuil (school), shuin (shoes), uiss (use
n.), uise (use v.) etc.

beuk (book), beuch (bough), deuk (duck), eneuch (enough), leuk (look), neuk
(nook), pleuch (plough), teuch (tough).

The following are generally spelled with 'ae', dae (do) and shae (shoe).

In a number of words Old English long o developed differently e.g. brither
(brother), fit (foot), mither (mother), ither (other) etc.

Analogous mistakes from English 'oo' or such a pronunciation often produce
written forms such as: wuid 'wid' (wood), cuid 'coud' (could),
shuid 'shoud'
(should), ruim (room).

Andy Eagle
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