The Scottish Parliament is actin it..

A’m shair awbodie supports baith initiatives.
But ye ken fine weel whaur A’m goin wi this…
A’m shair awbodie supports baith initiatives.
But ye ken fine weel whaur A’m goin wi this…
See, telt ye Scots speakers wis mair gleg-like!
Marco Cobra Cafolla haes a theory aboot this: “The reason Scots hiv been muckle contreibuters tae mankynd, is acause thon wha bide i the lawlaunds an’ the nor east o Scotland growed up learin’ baith Scots an’ Inglis as native tongues, maist o us wi’out kennin we war. Thon wha bided outside ‘at aurie in Scotland, Ah’ve been telt bi a body wha growed up thonner, hiv stairtit tae lear Gaelic in schuils alangsyde Inglis. Acause o thae reasons, Ah think fowk frae Scotland hiv, wi’out noticin, gat aa the propines that comes wi kennin twa o mair leids“.
Kinna like his thocht that bilingualism wis a muckle pairt o the floorin o Scotland’s culture in the 18t an 19t centuries…. A doot monie o oor muckle thinkers maun hae bin twa-leidit….
As Scots isna tocht, fowk can mistak general-like aspecks o Scots as kinna ‘local’. Sae interestin FB post frae Níall Páraig Ó Treasaigh “When ah wis wee, ah’d add “eh no?” rather than jist “eh?” tae the end o a sentence tae mak it intae a question. Is this jist a Stirling/Faakirk thing? Dae ye yaise this yersels? If so/no, whaurabouts are ye fae?“.
Ma repine: Known as ‘question tags’. Usually operate in a similar positive/negative way to English; He’s no gaun, is he? However negative tags can have a distinct Scots form He’s on the buroo, is he no? (with rising intonation). Compare to the English-like form He’s on the buroo, i(s)n’t he? (with falling intonation).
The neutral tag Eh? which can be either positive or negative is also very common He’s on the buroo, eh? and He isna on the buroo, eh? A negative tag eh no? can also be used here.
There is an analogy with a very similar informal positive tag hè common in Flemish/Dutch.
The colloquial urban Glasgow tag int it as in It’s awfie faur int it? is thought to be a fairly recent innovation or perhaps import.
Och, an mibbies explains this an aw..