Scottish Wikipedia

[The Shaggy D.A.]

https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Enfield_Bullet


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[M.C]

Did walloper write that?

[Rogerborg]

Ah deed a wee bit onside reedin that.

It's not a language, it's a debased gutter dialect.
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[RhynoCZ]

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Is this taught at school?
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[stinkwheel]

It reads like no Scots accent/dialect I've ever seen. It reads like Groundskeeper Willy from the Simpsons speaks, so a bad American approximation of a Scots accent.

An ah'd ken weel fit ahm speirin' aboot, ahm fae tcheuchter country.
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[chickenstrip]

But isn't 'Scots' when in written form all just an approximation of the accent anyway? So there can be no 'correct' form, as the Scots accent, like English, varies from place to place, and isn't derived from a single original, but is merely a bastardised form of English - possibly with influences from Gaelic. So really it should be termed 'Scots English', much as we might say 'American', or 'Americanised' English for the Yanks.
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[chickenstrip]

[Polarbear]

I love the accent when its a girl from the Western Isles

Any other Scottish accent sounds like someone trying to bring up phlegm.

Obviously our ancestors were sadly lacking when they engaged in a little social cleansing after Culloden.
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[M.C]

[chickenstrip]

[stinkwheel]

Scots is a written dialect, has been for a long time.

Here's a Burns manuscript, in Scots, from the late 18th century.
https://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/frank/images/RBwean1008.jpg
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[Polarbear]

[chickenstrip]

It occurred to me that folk like Burns had been writing that way a long time ago. But where did he get it from? Has it ever been the customary way to write in Scotland? are you all writing like this up there?! Is it/has it ever been taught in schools as a correct way to write? How does someone know when it is done incorrectly?

It seems that a proper dictionary wasn't compiled until 1976:

https://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/Publications/conciseScotsDictionary.html



It sometimes seems to be referred to as a 'language', but surely it can't be in it's own right, as it is mostly clearly derived from English words or usage?

[MarJay]

Sounds like a non Scot doing an impression of a Glasweigan. Not unlike Simon Pegg in the new star trek movies.
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