Re:It’s time for Scotland to find a new home in Canada
by koralatov on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:35PM
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Linguistic flattening had been going longer before the Second World War -- the introduction of railways helped it a long a bit, but radio really sped up the process. My grandmother told me that radio, listened to by all the family, was the first time English was spoken in the family home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0isMWmwfO34
and Aye Can's Doric page [2] is part an audio map of Scottish Dialect
[2] http://www.ayecan.com/listen_to_scots/north_east.html
Sheena's Granny's Doric [3] has a flavour of the musicality of Scots.
[3] http://media.scotslanguage.com/library/audio/ayecan/census_n...
The Scots sort of sang their words, especially the Gaelic speakers, Orcadians and Shetlandic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37bgydws0E
The BBC's postwar campaign to establish Recieved Pronunciation made the UK largely comprehensible to each other but at great cost to it's unrecorded linguistic diversity - at the time sadly considered vulgar.
Lang may yer Lum Reek ! ( Long may your chimney's smoke - a Fifer greeting )
Dinnae fasch yersel. - Edinburgh's Don't worry yourself ( Keep Calm )