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Don't forget that Scots is generally spoken in the south. There is a rich selection of dialects around the country, notably in the the north where Norse is the
by smackay 7y ago
Don't forget that Scots is generally spoken in the south. There is a rich selection of dialects around the country, notably in the the north where Norse is the strongest influence.
http://www.caithness.org/dialect/ http://www.caithness.org/dialect/
- arethuza 7y agoWhen I was growing up it was possible to tell by accent whether someone came from an inland farm or from one of the fishing villages along the coast - even though the farms might only be 1km or so from the villages.
- stevekemp 7y agoThe UK is like that as a whole, the accents and dialect can vary enormously in very short distances. Even simple things like what people call rolls of bread can place people pretty accurately: https://i.imgur.com/mwoYYYQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/mwoYYYQ.jpg I call a small roll of bread a "bread-cake" because that's what my mom called it. My dad would call it a "morning roll". Now I'm an adult I can, and do, alternate between the two terms but I have a preference for my mother's term. Some words I take my mother's terms and some my dad's. So I guess there's a blending from Scotland and Yorkshire. Now raising a bilingual child who is 50% Finnish who knows how he'll talk, and what he'll call things!