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Scotticism is a phrase or word which is characteristic of
dialectThe term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by scholars of language. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other...
s of
ScotsScottish language can refer to:* Scots language , a West Germanic language spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland and Ulster, deriving from Middle English...
. An archetypal example is "
Och aye the nou", which translates as, "
Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases "Och ay" and "The nou" are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together. Other phrases of this sort include:
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Scotticism is a phrase or word which is characteristic of
dialectThe term dialect is used in two distinct ways, even by scholars of language. One usage refers to a variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular group of the language's speakers. The term is applied most often to regional speech patterns, but a dialect may also be defined by other...
s of
ScotsScottish language can refer to:* Scots language , a West Germanic language spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland and Ulster, deriving from Middle English...
. An archetypal example is "
Och aye the nou", which translates as, "
Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases "Och ay" and "The nou" are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together. Other phrases of this sort include:
- Braw, bricht, muinlicht nicht
- Hoots mon
"Hoots Mon" is a song written by Harry Robertson. It was a number-one hit single for three weeks in 1958 on the UK Singles Chart. The song was later featured in a commercial for Maynards Wine Gums with the line "There's a moose loose aboot this hoose" changed to "There's juice loose aboot this...
the nou
- Lang mey yer lum reek
During the
Scottish EnlightenmentThe Scottish Enlightenment was the period in 18th century Scotland characterised by an outpouring of intellectual and scientific accomplishments...
, many leading figures, particularly
David HumeDavid Hume was a Scottish philosopher, economist, historian and a key figure in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
, strove to excise Scotticisms from their writing, in an attempt to make their work more appealing to an English, and wider European, audience.
See also
- Anti-Scottish sentiment
Anti-Scottish sentiment is disdain, envy, fear or hatred for Scotland, the Scots or Scottish culture. It is sometimes referred to as Scotophobia .-Anti-Scottish attacks:...
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
The Dictionary of the Scots Language is an online Scots-English dictionary, now run by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, a charity and limited company...
- Doric
Doric refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in the northeast of Scotland. The term Doric was formerly used to refer to all dialects of Scots, but is now reserved specifically for northeastern varieties.-Pronunciation and lexis:The main phonetic differences between Doric and other Lowland Scots...
- Lallans
Lallans , a variant of the Scots word lawlands meaning the lowlands of Scotland, was also traditionally used to refer to the Scots language as a whole...
- Languages in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom does not have a constitutionally defined official language. English is the main language and is thus the de facto official language.-Statistics:...
- Phonological history of the Scots language
This is a presentation of the phonological history of the Scots language.Scots vocabularly chiefly has its origins in Old English via early Northern Middle English, Old Norse and Romance sources such as ecclesiastical and legal Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle French borrowings. Trade and immigration...
- Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech
The Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech is an ongoing project to build a corpus of modern-day written and spoken texts in Scottish English and varieties of Scots. SCOTS has been available online since November 2004, and can be freely searched and browsed...
- Scottish English
Scottish English refers to the varieties of English spoken in Scotland. It may or may not include Scots depending on the observer.The main, formal variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English...