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Maybe this isn't for Fun House, but, go through the The Scots language Wikipedia and see how long you can go to figure out what the article says. For more info on the Scots language, go here.
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Spoken Scots I have no problem with as many words are in common usage. Written Scots I find almost impossible to understand. I doubt if the Scots language wiki has a very high readership.
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Spoken Scots I have no problem with as many words are in common usage. Written Scots I find almost impossible to understand. I doubt if the Scots language wiki has a very high readership.
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i agree with strange little girl. im from the north east of scotland and while we speak that way , i still find it very hard to make out some of the written words even tho i probably say them commonly
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I was waiting for a few Scots to chime in first on this one, but I agree with you both, the person/s who put this together do not have a clue about writing phonetically, or 'in the vernacular'. Firstly there are many accents and dialects in Scoretland, so attempting a general 'Scots' register is impossible, and what they have identified is a comedy of reasonable representations and confused attempts at other sounds. Basically it's rubbish. A good example of accurate 'Scots' would be Irvine Welsh, who writes in many Scottish registers, particularly Edinburgh and Glasgow, and I recall reading a superb Highland 'vernacular' recently which I shall attempt to link to later - a far superior written representation of spoken Scots...
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For a completely true and accurate version of how all Scots everywhere speak, I refer you to the perennial Scottish comic strips 'The Broons' (See here and here) and 'Oor Wullie' (see here and here).
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Oh wow...thanks for the links Danvers. I haven't seen The Broons or Oor Wullie for decades. Posts: 589 | From: Oxfordshire, UK | Registered: Jun 2005
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What on earth is that supposed to be on Middenface McNulty's head? It looks like he's growing mushrooms up there!
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That's his mutation Minstrel', he was born in a post-apocalypse Britain, and whilst some of his fellow 'Strontium Dogs' (Mutant Bountyhunters) benefited in some ways from mutations (Johnny Alpha for example has X-Ray vision) ol' Middenface just got the lumpy heid!
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