We’ll never catch the Old Country in incomprehensibility. The thickest hillbilly drawl can’t compete with the original recipe Scottish gibberish. I understand the Scots have some beef with the English, and they take out their frustrations with them on their language.
You’ve got Scottish Standard English. Possibly with a strong accent. In some areas, people mix English and Scots so there’s a “linguistic continuum” between them.
You’ve got Scots. West Germanic language, descended from Early Middle English. Lots of shared root words, but not fully intelligible to English speakers. Mostly spoken by people in the Scottish Lowlands and some of the islands, including Ulster in Northern Ireland. Potentially just a dialect of English, but more often considered a separate language.
You’ve got Scottish Gaelic. No relation to English. Developed out of Old Irish, this is a Celtic language instead of a Germanic language like Scots and English.
So the Scottish people have at least 3 languages to pick from to confuse the English.
Fun fact: the Appalachian Mountains are the same mountain chain as the mountains in Scotland. They existed before the continents shifted apart. A ton of Scottish people immigrated to places like West Virginia because it was familiar (and cheap). So Scotland is essentially Appalachian, which shares a lot of food with the American South.
TIL Scotland is in the south.
Scotland and The Southern US are in a battle to see who can deep-fry the wildest shit.
A lot of Scots migrated to the Appalachians. They do highland games including the caber toss at Grandfather Mountain.
We must outdo our cousins.
We’ll never catch the Old Country in incomprehensibility. The thickest hillbilly drawl can’t compete with the original recipe Scottish gibberish. I understand the Scots have some beef with the English, and they take out their frustrations with them on their language.
Languages.
You’ve got Scottish Standard English. Possibly with a strong accent. In some areas, people mix English and Scots so there’s a “linguistic continuum” between them.
You’ve got Scots. West Germanic language, descended from Early Middle English. Lots of shared root words, but not fully intelligible to English speakers. Mostly spoken by people in the Scottish Lowlands and some of the islands, including Ulster in Northern Ireland. Potentially just a dialect of English, but more often considered a separate language.
You’ve got Scottish Gaelic. No relation to English. Developed out of Old Irish, this is a Celtic language instead of a Germanic language like Scots and English.
So the Scottish people have at least 3 languages to pick from to confuse the English.
See? Their nonsense technology is light years ahead of ours.
For the last 300 years
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White people living in Vermont, pre-1755:
Am I a joke to you?
Yeah they kinda are.
Well, it is south of the North Pole…
Fun fact: the Appalachian Mountains are the same mountain chain as the mountains in Scotland. They existed before the continents shifted apart. A ton of Scottish people immigrated to places like West Virginia because it was familiar (and cheap). So Scotland is essentially Appalachian, which shares a lot of food with the American South.