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Aberdonian, Joyce Falconer performs in Doric. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isMWmwfO34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isMWmwfO34 and Aye Can's Doric page
by deepnet 9y ago
Aberdonian, Joyce Falconer performs in Doric.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isMWmwfO34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isMWmwfO34
and Aye Can's Doric page [2] is part an audio map of Scottish Dialect
[2] http://www.ayecan.com/listen_to_scots/north_east.html http://www.ayecan.com/listen_to_scots/north_east.html
Sheena's Granny's Doric [3] has a flavour of the musicality of Scots.
[3] http://media.scotslanguage.com/library/audio/ayecan/census_northeast4.mp3 http://media.scotslanguage.com/library/audio/ayecan/census_n...
The Scots sort of sang their words, especially the Gaelic speakers, Orcadians and Shetlandic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37bgydws0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37bgydws0E
The BBC's postwar campaign to establish Recieved Pronunciation made the UK largely comprehensible to each other but at great cost to it's unrecorded linguistic diversity - at the time sadly considered vulgar.
Lang may yer Lum Reek ! ( Long may your chimney's smoke - a Fifer greeting )
Dinnae fasch yersel. - Edinburgh's Don't worry yourself ( Keep Calm )
- koralatov 9y agoLinguistic flattening had been going longer before the Second World War -- the introduction of railways helped it a long a bit, but radio really sped up the process. My grandmother told me that radio, listened to by all the family, was the first time English was spoken in the family home.