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Thread #118662   Message #2573376
Posted By: BobKnight
22-Feb-09 - 08:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: English grammar question
Subject: RE: BS: English grammar question
Scots inflected endings used to be "it," rather than "ed." So, look/lookit,bark/barkit, and so on. However, as someone said earlier in the thread, proximity to our larger Southern neighbour and the media, mean that most of these are now disappearing. Mostly due to the media I think, since we've had those same neighbours for a thousand years, and it's only in the last thirty years or so that the erosion has taken place.

Interestingly enough the Scots past form of tell, is telt rather than told, and I've heard people from the Newcastle area using that as well. Scots is probably closer to the Anglo Saxon/Old English forms than "English" English.

In Aberdeen there is a road called The Lang Stracht (The Long Straight) - almost German/Dutch sounding with the soft "ch" velar fricative sound. Oddly enough, it's in a suburb of Aberdeen called Mastrick, which is very similiar to "Mastricht" which is in Holland if I remember correctly.