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From: morna@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Morna.Findlay)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 14:36:24 GMT
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In article <ginnyb.8.2FBA59AB@phil-engl.dundee.ac.uk> ginnyb@phil-engl.dundee.ac.uk writes:
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>A little example for you to ponder.  The Shetland dialect (or, since the 
>dialect has been declining for a number of years, the Shetland *accent*)
>has been known to be incomprehensible to mainland Scots.  

Incomprehensible? What tosh!

A bit weird to the ear on first hearing it certainly, but by not
the most blatant distortion of the English language ( :-) ) could you
call it "incomprehensible".

The oddest Scots I've personally heard spoken is that of 
the Buckie farmers - and this after living
in Aberdeen fo a year. It's not like I was fresh out of
Glasgow.

M

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