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Listen to BBC Radio Scotland Live (many presenters, such as Robbie Shepherd, have a noticeable Scottish accent) "Hover and hear" pronunciations in a Standard Scottish accent, and compare side by side with other English accents from Scotland and around the World. BBC Voices - Listen to a lot of the voice recordings from many parts of the UK
Pages in category "Scottish words and phrases" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST), 12 volumes; Scottish National Dictionary (SND), 10 volumes; The DOST contains information about Older Scots words in use from the 12th to the end of the 17th centuries (Early and Middle Scots); SND contains information about Scots words in use from 1700 to the 1970s (Modern Scots).
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 ...
Doric A-Z words and phrases; Technical description of Doric pronunciation [permanent dead link ] Aw Ae Wey—Written Scots in Scotland and Ulster Archived 13 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine; North East page at Scots Language Centre 'Hover & Hear' Doric pronunciations, and compare with other accents from the UK and around the World. Hear ...
List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots. Blackmail A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations. blatant ...
The following words are of Goidelic origin but it cannot be ascertained whether the source language was Old Irish or one of the modern Goidelic languages.. Brogue [1] An accent, Irish, or Scottish Gaelic bròg, shoe (of a particular kind worn by Irish and Gaelic peasants), Old Irish bróc, from Norse brókr [2]
Boggers, Bog Buggers (pejorative, alludes to the last words of King George V) [12] Bolton Trotters (originally a football term, it is now used to describe anyone from Bolton and surrounding area), Noblot (collective noun, anagram for Bolton) [13] Bo'ness Bo'neds (pejorative) Bootle Bootlickers, Bugs-in-Clogs [14] Bourne, Lincolnshire Bourne ...