Scottish English

[muck_a_luck]

For the language fetishist in all of us...

About a year ago, I picked up a book on Gaelic, cause I was listening to a bunch of music and I couldn't pronounce the names.

Well, with my background in Slavic languages, I understand that scary looking combinations of letters are often very innocent, if you just know what they are supposed to mean, so I thought, I'll just get a book and peer at the pronunciation guide for awhile.

Here's the one I found:







So I'm fooling around with it, and I'm rapidly getting more and more confused.

The vowel sound in top and boat is the same?

Jaw and door?

TIN and SWEEP?!

Go, look! You'll see what I mean.

Then, I scanned back up over the text for some explanation of what they could possibly mean.

You will note it says, "The equivalent examples given refer to Scottish English..."

OMG! I feel like Henry Higgins!

Comments

[mresundance.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I can't make heads nor tales of this either. But that is probably because I was paying more attention to "hard bold wicked" next to Billy Boyd on your background. >)

Hard, Bold, Wicked

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

Ha! I believe that icon was the property of daisy_gamgee. And that's what Pippen says about himself in Return of the King. :)Have you read The History of Us? V. good Merry/Pippen.

[wyldestarr.livejournal.com]

I had an Irish-English-Irish dictionary once with some pronunciation guides and once my head starting spinning, it did start to make a strange sort of sense. Personally, it may be to make any sort of sense out of gaelic, be it Irish or Scots, one must have a small amount of inebriating substance. Which, if you think about it, makes a bizarre sort of sense. *grins*

[muck-a-luck.livejournal.com]

*snert*