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Annie wrote: "If anyone is interested in learning more about the Scots languages, here is a good link. http://www.scotslanguage.com/books/vi...
Jamie (and others) spoke Gaelic, a highland language, and a..."
Thanks for the link, Annie...looks interesting!
Doric was and still is mainly spoken on the north east coast of Scotland, where i stay, and Gaelic was spoken all overnot so much now.
I don't know much about Doric. Would Jamie have spoken Doric in the Inverness area? I don't know how similar it is to what my hub speaks, which is pretty much the same as in the books. He's from Glasgow.
Nah i dinna think oor Jamie wid hae spoken doric Annie and i ken fit ye mean by the way yer hubby speaks because my parents are from a wee villiage 20 miles west of Glasgow :)
Which wee village, Fiona? We are 10 miles outside of Dunoon.
Annie wrote: "Which wee village, Fiona? We are 10 miles outside of Dunoon."Mam n Dad are fae a wee place called Cardross originally bit noo we byde in a wee place called Buckie
Other side of the water from us, sort of.
Aye tis the ither side o the water lol, (will pit in a puckle wee doric wordies fir ye here n there) bit its a cool place, hivin aulds fae 'at area ye kin guess thit oor holidays wis spent gan " doon i road tae see granfolks" so alot o tourin oot n aboot.lolDid you say thit ye'd been up my way, if so far aboot?
Aye. Been to Inverness where stepdaughter lives. Hub can rattle off and read lallans but my Yankee tongue cannae.
Aye aye weel at's jist a wee trecky o an 1 1/2 hrs fae me gan west.lol Sorry boot pittin doric in jist it's easier to type the way i speak sometimes.lol.x
I can figure out lallans and I think doric.
http://www.scotslanguage.com/books/vi...
Jamie (and others) spoke Gaelic, a highland language, and also lowlands/lallans (doric?), one of the Scots languages. Most anywhere in Scotland you'll hear Scots being spoken - mooth, hoose, dinna, canna mind (can't remember), dinna fash yersel. Bairn and ya ken (ya know) are mainly from the east.