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Scottish Standard English is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with focused [clarification needed] broad Scots at the other. [7] Scottish English may be influenced to varying degrees by Scots. [8] [9] Many Scots speakers separate Scots and Scottish English as different registers depending on social circumstances. [10]
Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers; Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West-Central Scots, but which shows strong influences from Irish English, its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards GSE ...
Highland English (Scots: Hieland Inglis, Scottish Gaelic: Beurla na Gaidhealtachd) [1] is the variety of Scottish English spoken by many in Gaelic-speaking areas and the Hebrides. [2] It is more strongly influenced by Gaelic than are other forms of Scottish English.
Accents and dialects vary widely across Great Britain, Ireland and nearby smaller islands. The UK has the most local accents of any English-speaking country [citation needed]. As such, a single "British accent" does not exist. Someone could be said to have an English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish accent, although these all have many different ...
The English equivalents given are approximate, and refer most closely to the Scottish pronunciation of Standard English. The vowel [aː] in English father is back [ɑː] in Southern English. The a in English late in Scottish English is the pure vowel [eː] rather than the more general diphthong [eɪ].
Ulster English, [1] also called Northern Hiberno-English or Northern Irish English, is the variety of English spoken mostly around the Irish province of Ulster and throughout Northern Ireland. The dialect has been influenced by the local Ulster dialect of the Scots language , brought over by Scottish settlers during the Plantation of Ulster and ...
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A version of Aesop's Fables has been published in Doric, as well as some sections of the Bible. The North East has been claimed as the "real home of the ballad" [ 14 ] and, according to Les Wheeler, "91 out of a grand total of (Child's) 305 ballads came from the North East – in fact from Aberdeenshire", which makes the usual name of "Border ...