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Scots is an amazing language. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU Though it seems like Scots is so overwhe
by panglott 11y ago
Scots is an amazing language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EwquC6wBU
Though it seems like Scots is so overwhelmed by British Standard English to exist more on a creole continuum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-creole_continuum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-creole_continuum
- teh_klev 11y agoThe woman in that video, as you've probably noticed, is speaking Shetlandic. What's strange is that I've found that folks from the Borders sound very similar, especially from around Hawick, Kelso and Galashiels, yet they're ~400 miles apart and over the sea.
- jccooper 11y agoIn pre-industrial Scotland, the Shetlands may have been nearly as close to the Borders as Edinburgh, especially if the Tweed was navigable (even for small boats) at that point. Before good roads and (especially) mechanized transport the sea was not an obstacle, it was an opportunity.