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Scottish English (Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE).
Scottish English is a broad term for the varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. Scottish English (SE) is customarily distinguished from Scots, which is regarded by some linguists as a dialect of English and by others as a language in its own right.
‘Scottish English’ is a notoriously difficult term to define. Jane Stuart-Smith (2008) borrows Jack Aitken’s terminology in describing language in Scotland as a ‘bipolar linguistic continuum’, extending from broad Scots to Scottish Standard English (SSE), and is the product of centuries of dialect contact and language change.
The type of English spoken in Scotland is often called Scottish English. Scottish English has mostly the same vocabulary and grammar as English spoken elsewhere, but with distinctly Scottish pronunciation.
For clients targeting a Scottish audience, it is important to consider whether they are seeking Scottish Standard English (i.e. localisation of Global English) or full translation into the Scots language proper (or, indeed, into Gaelic).
The languages of Scotland. Typical Scottish patter, phrases and idioms. Learn more about Scotland and its patter with Lingoda. Scottish people are very proud of their national heritage and the way in how they sound different from other English speakers.
Because the Scottish English vowel system is considerably different from GB, it is transcribed here with a different set of phonemic symbols. There is nothing like the same pattern of difference between short and long vowels as there is in GB, so length marks are not used on the vowels.
Scottish English, also known as Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE), is a dialect of English that is spoken in Scotland. People can tell Scottish English from British English by their accents, grammar, and vocabulary.
Scottish English can be described as a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Broad Scots, essentially a spoken variety, at one end and Scottish Standard English at the other. This continuum is the result of dialect contact and language change over many centuries.
This chapter uses the term Scottish English (ScE) to refer to the distinctive localised variety of British English native to Scotland. In order to explain the development of ScE, one must consider two key strands: the development of a variety the author terms Scots; and the subsequent development of another Scottish variety, Scottish Standard ...