LL-L 'Resources' 2012.01.26 (02) [EN-SCO]

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From: Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Subject: "Alice's Carrànts in Wunnerlan" (Alice in Ulster Scots) published
by Evertype

Evertype would like to announce the publication of Anne Morrison-Smyth's
translation of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" into the Ulster Scots
language, "Alice's Carrànts in Wunnerlan". The book uses John Tenniel's
classic illustrations. A page with links to Amazon.com and
Amazon.co.uk<http://amazon.co.uk/>is available athttp://
www.evertype.com/books/alice-ulster.html . Bookstores can order copies at a
discount from the publisher.

>From the Introduction (English follows below):

Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wus the scriever’s
richt name an hae wus lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford.
Dodgson stairtet the story on 4 July 1862, whin hae tuk a jaunt in a rowin
boat on the river Thames in Oxford thegither wi the Reverent Robinson
Duckworth, wi Alice Liddell (ten years oul), the dochter o the Deen o
Christ Church, an wi her twa sisters, Lorina (thirteen years oul), an Edith
(eight years oul). Frae the beginnin o the book, it’s clear that the thrie
weelàsses axt Dodgson fur a story an, reluctant at furst, hae stairtet tae
tell the furst version o the story tae thim. Monie half-hidden refrences ir
med tae the five o thim throughout the text o the book itsel, whuch wus
publisht at last in 1865.

This buk is the furst translation o Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland intae
Ulster Scots, a language that comes frae the Lowlans in Scotlan an thin wus
brocht intae Norlin Airlan in the early 17th Century. Es it’s a dialect o
Scots it haes close links wi standart Inglesh, but thur’s monie differences
in baith grammer an vocabulary between the twa languages.

The orthography used in this book’s based on the spellins that ir maistly
used bae native taakers o Ulster Scots. Baecaas Ulster Scots haes only
recently bin wrote doon mere, it haesnae a fully standardized orthography,
es weel es authoritative an comprehensive dictionaries tae help scrievers
tae spell consistently. Baecaas Ulster Scots wusnae lukt upon es a language
in its ain richt scrievers o Ulster Scots hae larnt tae think in thur ain
language an scrieve doon wurds in standart Inglesh—an so whin fowk write in
Ulster Scots, they hae tae stap a weethin ivery noo an agane tae mine hoo
some wurds ir spelt.

A guid deel o effert haes bin putt intae makin sure the orthography used in
Alice’s Carrànts in Wunnerlan is es consistent es possible. The spellin
conforms tae traditional practices amang maist o them that scrieve in
Ulster Scots an shud bae aisily read bae native taakers o the language,
that hae bin brocht up in the Ulster Scots taakin airts.

Lewis Carroll is a pen-name: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was the author’s real
name and he was lecturer in Mathematics in Christ Church, Oxford. Dodgson
began the story on 4 July 1862, when he took a journey in a rowing boat on
the river Thames in Oxford together with the Reverend Robinson Duckworth,
with Alice Liddell (ten years of age) the daughter of the Dean of Christ
Church, and with her two sisters, Lorina (thirteen years of age), and Edith
(eight years of age). As is clear from the poem at the beginning of the
book, the three girls asked Dodgson for a story and reluctantly at first he
began to tell the first version of the story to them. There are many
half-hidden references are made to the five of them throughout the text of
the book itself, which was published finally in 1865.

This book is the first translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland into
Ulster Scots, a language which derives from the Lowlands in Scotland and
which was imported into Northern Ireland in the early 17th century. As a
dialect of Scots, it is closely related to standard English, but there are
many differences in both grammar and vocabulary between the two languages.

The orthography used in this book is based on the spellings that are mostly
used by native speakers of Ulster Scots. Since Ulster Scots has only
recently been written down, it lacks a fully standardized orthography, as
well as authoritative and comprehensive dictionaries to help writers to
spell consistently. Since Ulster Scots was not previously recognized as a
language in its own right, writers of Ulster Scots have learned to think in
their own language while writing down words in standard English—and so when
people write Ulster Scots, they often have to pause to remember how certain
words are spelled.

A good deal of effort has been put into ensuring that the orthography used
in Alice’s Carrànts in Wunnerlan is as consistent as possible. The spelling
conforms to traditional practices amongst most of those writing in Ulster
Scots and should be easily read by native speakers of Ulster Scots, brought
up in the Ulster Scots speaking areas.

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Michaael Everson
Evertype, http://alice-in-wonderland-books.com

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