tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post7422387741195604726..comments2024-03-17T09:14:13.950+00:00Comments on John Wells’s phonetic blog: Scottish phoneticsJohn Wellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684304410735867148noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-48138410402326144452011-02-19T23:40:48.012+00:002011-02-19T23:40:48.012+00:00how borrringhow borrringUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08934727950332566856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-13725717437333583342010-07-02T10:20:33.379+01:002010-07-02T10:20:33.379+01:00I think the 'blurriness' in the west resul...I think the 'blurriness' in the west results from Gretna being less Scottish in terms of VOT and SVLR. Carlisle does definitely not sound Scottish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-30452489232465219692010-04-06T05:25:22.439+01:002010-04-06T05:25:22.439+01:00It is a of course word, but is it appropriate in t...It is a of course word, but is it appropriate in the context you used it in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-87088659235432035972010-04-06T05:19:55.077+01:002010-04-06T05:19:55.077+01:00I knew that. But it still carried on the change t...I knew that. But it still carried on the change that was made by the English not too long before then. Is "dint" a word?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-38208924804870526642010-04-06T02:36:07.597+01:002010-04-06T02:36:07.597+01:00@Anonymous:
I dint think it's accurate to say...@Anonymous:<br /><br />I dint think it's accurate to say that Wales "made the switch" to nonrhoticity. Wales has been nonrhotic ever since it became majority Anglophone in the nineteenth century.vphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647609487352038948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-47554447380375945882010-04-06T01:13:04.043+01:002010-04-06T01:13:04.043+01:00"who" -> "that""who" -> "that"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-24637245653792701762010-04-06T01:12:25.921+01:002010-04-06T01:12:25.921+01:00Interesting. Maybe Scotland in general is on its ...Interesting. Maybe Scotland in general is on its way to non-rhoticity. After all, it is the only country on the isle of Great Britain who hasn't "made the switch".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-32748349767072850702010-04-05T18:12:38.010+01:002010-04-05T18:12:38.010+01:00I was just surprised that Carlisle was more Scots-...I was just surprised that Carlisle was more Scots-sounding than Berwick. I've never actually been to Carlisle or met anyone from there. When I've been to the Lake District though, the local people didn't sound Scottish to me; I remember it as similar to Lancashire. On the other hand, I have been to Berwick and thought they sounded half-Scottish.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04081841460525341333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-25690585031606934712010-04-05T17:21:20.124+01:002010-04-05T17:21:20.124+01:00Ed, you're right in one sense, wrong in anothe...Ed, you're right in one sense, wrong in another. The point is that the English/Scottish line is remarkably clearcut, even if places like northern Northumbria do have various Scottish-like features.John Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13684304410735867148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-377103124456226005.post-62949198808818381272010-04-05T16:11:21.025+01:002010-04-05T16:11:21.025+01:00I'm very surprised by the first bullet point. ...I'm very surprised by the first bullet point. I've always found Northumberland accents to sound half-Scottish and Cumbrian accents to sound Northern English.<br /><br />There used to be rhoticity, a strut-foot split and retention of /hw/ (which, what, etc.) in Northumberland. Have these died out?Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04081841460525341333noreply@blogger.com