Scots with Len Pennie and Michael Dempster | The Language Podcast || S1E3

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“The time has now come for conversations about Scots to be in complete isolation from English.”
Scots and English are sister languages with many similarities, but they are not the same. These days, Scots is minoritised and often seen as ‘bad English’. But how did it get this reputation, and is its future under threat?
Len Pennie and Dr Michael Dempster join Richard to explore the divergence of Scots from English, Scots’ rich history as a language of creative works, and they share the vibrancy of the language through some of their favourite words, phrases and dialects.
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24 сен 2024

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@quietlyconfident Год назад

Where my mom is from in southern Appalachia they have words like “I swannee” (kind of like “well I’ll be”), “polecat” (skunk), “haint” (ghost), “lawww!” (An exclamation of surprise/admiration), “pert” (healthy looking), and “holler” (valley, not just to yell). I don’t know how common they might be in other parts of the English-speaking world but they’re not used at all where I’m from in eastern NC. 😅 I don’t know of many unique words here, just if you say “barbecue” we expect pulled pork and nothing else. 😂

@TangoKilo3 2 месяца назад

In the Netherlands, "coffeeshop" exclusively refers to a shop that sells marijuana. Which is something I had to get used to when I moved from the United States.

@catherinesikora8397 2 месяца назад

Hello! Thanks for this very interesting conversation! Can you please help this American English speaker with what is Michael Dempster's favorite Scot's term? At about 30:48 or so he says something that I cannot understand and the context does not help clarify what the word is. Also the cc are USELESS as they don't seem to hear it either and don't even try. And honestly, I would love to know the spelling of the word that Len says is hers. The CC spells it Korean! Ha ha ha! Perhaps a wee overlay of some graphic text here would have helped us! Thanks sooo much!

@tonymaries1652 11 месяцев назад

Michael said at 16:52 that 'Scots isnae deid yet', and that Scots is a dying language which has been part of the accepted official narrative for hundreds of years. Suppression of minority languages has always been a powerful tool exerted by imperial powers and you can look to the other side of Europe for a very good example. Russia has repeatedly denied that the Ukrainian language exists and up to the collapse of the Soviet Union it was difficult to access any kind of published or broadcast media in Ukrainian. Ukraine's national anthem is 'Ukraine is not yet dead' (Ще не вмерла Україна), which was proclaimed as the state anthem of the short-lived independent Ukraine republic after the defeat of Russia and the collapse of the Tsarist regime in 1917.