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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: LL-L "Phonology" 2008.03.22 (04) [E]

> 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,

These vary between dialects, but as a general guide:

"ui" is a rounded "i" (eg French "une" or German u-umlaut) in
conservative dialects but has become unrounded in most modern dialects,
to /I/ in central dialects or /i/ in northern dialects. In northern
dialects the rounding is still evident as a preceding "w" after a "k" or
"g", so, eg "good", "school" and "tooth" are:

spelling    central pronunciation    northern pronunciation

guid        /gId/                    /gwid/
schuil      /skIl/                   /skwil/
tuith       /tIT/                    /tiT/

As Andy explained, these don't _always_ correspond to the English "oo".
For example, "wud" for wood, "fit" for foot. Spelling these with "ui" is
a frequent overcorrection for the loss of rounding amongst modern Scots
writers.

"eu" might be pronounced either /ju/ or /V/ (as in English "cut")
according to dialect, though I'm not so sure of the isoglosses for
these. Eg "beuk" (/bjuk/ or /bVk/) for book, "sheuch" (/Sjux/ or /SVx/)
for ditch.

The "eu" is also an unrounding of an original u-umlaut, this being the
way this unrounding has gone when followed by /k/ or /x/. Accordingly
some writers write "ui" since the following phoneme implies the correct
pronunciation.

"ae" is pronounced /e:/ and could be thought of as the long form of
"ui". For example, "shae" (shoe), plural "shuin" (shoes), or "dae" (do),
past tense "duin" (done).

Sandy Fleming
http://scotstext.org/

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