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I grew up in Australia, so would have considered myself a native English speaker. We’re even a British colony! I moved to Scotland for a year, and London for a
by glenngillen 6y ago
I grew up in Australia, so would have considered myself a native English speaker. We’re even a British colony!
I moved to Scotland for a year, and London for a few years later. I’d regularly here phrasing I’d never heard before and would need the speaker to clarify or would look up later. In the vast majority of those cases it was most often an old word that appears to have fallen out of fashionable usage. “Ken” being a synonym for “know” in Scotland being the one I remember most given how frequently it was used.
So it’s not just non-native speakers that struggle at times!
- kettro 6y agoScots is not technically the same as English - they diverged about 900 years ago, and differences like ken are common (compare to French connaître, or German kennen).
- technothrasher 6y agoScots is not the same as Scottish English either. Words like "ken" in Scottish English are borrowed from Scots, but while the vast majority in Scotland speak Scottish English, only about 30% of the population can speak Scots.
- 082349872349872 6y ago"Voice recognition lift" (BBC Scotland) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3lYLphzAnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3lYLphzAnw
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- Balgair 6y agoRobert Burns' songs and poetry are mostly in Scots. It's a hoot to read through, like Chaucer almost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_o%27_Shanter_(poem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam_o%27_Shanter_(poem)