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Thread #53749   Message #830488
Posted By: Scabby Douglas
20-Nov-02 - 04:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: UK dialect help
Subject: RE: BS: UK dialect help
I don't think that apart from the Shetlands "thou" is used in Scotland. I'm unaware of it, at any rate... Bear in mind that for a large part of the Highlands and even as far south as the Trossachs, English did not become widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries.. by which time thee and thou were virtually dead in Standard English..

"Puggled" is interesting to me though... in Scotland, "puggled" is used to mean drunk - or more specifically, confused and befuddled through drink. That meaning is so similar to LtS's Dorset usage that I wonder if they are connected?



Cheers


Steven