any archaisms
By jb78000
@jb78000 (15139)
October 11, 2009 4:37am CST
in whatever your version of english is? following a discussion about languages with someone who had the termerity to speak punjabi to a friend in front of me cos it was easier (good thing i knew both of them and knew they probably were not speaking about me eh?) i've realised that scottish english still contains things that disappeared from english english centuries ago. notably the consonant cluster in loch - often still pronounced in words like night. exists in other germanic languages but disappeared from standard english a long time ago.
2 responses
@LittleMrsSunshine (201)
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13 Oct 09
I live in Yorkshire, which really nearly has its own language all of its own like Scotland.
Main language thing is the glottol stop. Its where you stop the gateway in the throat like a vowel. Londoners use it too where they miss out "t"s in words like water but we do it with the word the. Southerners try to take it off but rarely can, we say t'pub and t'dog etc. But we do not say T'pub and T'dog, ie, silly people think we say it like that but it is much subtler and softer.
don't know if that made sense!
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
12 Oct 09
Off the top of my head I can't think of any, but now you've planted this seed in my brain I have no doubt some will occur to me a unsuitable moments for the next day or so.
Our Australian English is a bit of a hodge podge. There used to be an old saying that the English were transported for petty larceny, the Irish for treason, and the Scots for nae reason at all, but whatever the truth of that we have strong elements of both upper class English and cockney, Irish English, and Scots English, so there are sure to be lots of archaisms. If I could only think of one.
Lash
