SCOTTISH ENGLISH

ARABIA MARTÍNEZ SEGUÍ

Background

Grammar

Vocabulary

Phonetics

Test

INDEX

Scotland is part of United Kingdom

The money used is called the sterling pound

The population of Scotland is 4.996.000

SCOTLAND

Edinburgh

Glasgow

Aberdeen

GEOGRAPHY OF SCOTLAND

Scottish English: varieties of English spoken in Scotland

◦ Gaelic is an ancient language of Scotland

◦ Most of the Gaelic speaking-people live in the north-west

LANGUAGE

Union of the Crowns (1603) Union of the Parliaments (1707) Steady decline of Scots begins in 16th century, by the

end of the 17th century English has gained considerable influence in Scotland English learned formally in Highlands and northern and

western

LANGUAGE HISTORY

NATIONAL SYMBOLS

GRAMMATICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Will instead of shall .Ex: Will I see you after?

Passive expressed by “get” Ex: I got told off

Verbs of motion may be elided before adverbs of motion Ex: I’ll away home then; the cat wants out.

“Have” behave more like an auxiliary Ex: he’d a good time

Characteristics I

“Need to”, “use to” and “dare to” are used as main verbs. Ex: he didn’t need to do that; he doesn’t dare to talk

Perfect aspect of a verb is indicated using “be” as auxiliary with the preposition “after” Ex: “he is after going” instead of “ he had gone”

Some verbs are used progressively. Ex: I was hoping to see him or they were meaning to come

Characteristics II

Pronouns in –self may be used non- reflexively Ex: How’s yourself today?

Anybody, everybody, nobody, somebody are preferred to anyone, everyone, no one, someone.

Amn’t I? is used virtuarlly to the exclusion of aren’t I? Ex: I’m expected too, amn’t I?

Characteristics III

The use of “not” rather than “n’t” Ex: he’ll not come; you’re not wanted.

The adverbial particle follows the verb Ex: he turned out the light

Use of participle after “need” Ex: My car needs washed

Characteristics IV

LEXICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Dinnae= Don’t Aye= yes Brae= hill Wee = small To mind= to remember Dram= drink Gate= road Nippin’ = nagging Paddock = frog Canny = careful Kirk= church

Kilt = Scottish Skirt Lassies = girls

ScotEng words used in Scotland

How are you keeping ? = how are you?

That’s me away = I’m going now

The back of nine o’ clock = soon after nine o’ clock

I’ve got the cold = a cold

Idioms

PHONETIC CHARACTERISTICS

Vowels and consonants

Strongly rhotic (trilled alveolar /r/ or alveolar tap /R /)

Monophthongized diphthongs: ◦RP/əU / as /o/ (“go” /go/); ◦RP /εI/ as /e/ (“play” /ple/); ◦RP /aU/ as /u:/ (“house” /hu:s/)

Unstressed vowels often realized as /I/ where RP has /ə/◦ “pilot” as /pʌilIt/,“letter” as /lEtIr/

Characteristics I

/u:/ and /U /, e.g. “pool” and “pull” are homophones

/ɔ/ and /ɒ/ merged to /ɔ/ such that “cot” and “caught” are homophones

Characteristics II

/I / and /ʌ/ are always short

RP diphthong /AI / becomes longer. e.g., in “tied”, “high”, “prize”.

Non-initial /t/ often replaced by /ʔ / (“butter” /bʌʔIr/) , use decreases in higher social classes

Characteristics III

“Donald wheres your troosers?”

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Which is the second largest city of Scotland?a) Aberdeenb) Glasgowc) Edinburgh 

When did the Union of the Parliaments happen?a) 1607b) 1807c) 1707 

Which is a national symbol of Scotland?a) Sunflowerb) Thistlec) Rose

Test

In Scottish English, “have” could be….a) A modalb) An auxiliarc) Both of them

Perfect aspect of a verb is indicated using “be” as auxiliary with the preposition…a) Beforeb) Afterc) At

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What does “wee” mean?a) Smallb) Bigc) Cold

What does “kilt” mean?a) Churchb) Scottish skirtc) Trousers

In Scottish English, which are homophones?a) /u:/ and /U/b) /U/ and /I/c) /U/ and /A/

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/I / and /ʌ/ are always…a) Homophonesb) Longc) Short

When does Scottish use glottal stop?a) Consonant “t”b) Consonant “d”c) Consonant “k”

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