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Ulster - GUL dialect.
Central - DUN dialect than that.
Ulster - GUL sheuch atween "language" an "dialect"!
Ulster - GUL sheuch atween "language" an "dialect": hooaniver, "accent"? Na, th
Shetland - SHD "; "dialect policy"; an "dialect strategy." I dunna kaen if di
Ulster - GULer wi bletherin in thon daft #dialect you caa "English"?
Southern - SWE(how are you?) In Doric (N-E) dialect, the wh in most words becomes
Shetland - SHD da public concept o da wird, dialect is laek a whaalblub - hit ha
Central - LAL is better for a conservative, dialect-briggin register.
Central - SEC kin it whit it is no—slang, dialect, poor English an no a leid at
Central - LAL rlin (carline), skite an til, dialect wirds seen tae hae a Norse sp
Shetland - SHD dan dae’r whit I caa macro-dialect. As weel as cannin ta nairoo
Shetland - SHD laek. Dis is whit I caa micro-dialect. You can brack da wird ‘dia
Shetland - SHD 1. Dialect haes nae identity.
Shetland - SHD 2. Dialect haes nae defineetion.
Shetland - SHD 3. Dialect canna be consolidatit.
Shetland - SHD 4. Dialect canna be promotit.
Shetland - SHD 5. Dialect is infinitely variable.
Shetland - SHD 7. Dialect canna dee oot.
Central - SEC on when ah'm at ma wit's end. Dialect, tae me, is a reflex reaction
Central - LAL ons speirt, 'Do you use Scots/dialect words?'. The repones was on a
Central - LAL Eik 3: Dialect sindriness in Scots screiving
Central - LAL Eik 3: Dialect sindriness in Scots screiving
Doric - MNACough, splutter! A dialect of English!!!! CÂ’mon quine,
Central - LAL Inglish. It can be a genre, a dialect or a leeterar register. It mi
Central - LAL o poyems that reenges hoo 'da dialect' an staundart Soothron mells
Shetland - SHD For onybody no familiar wi da dialect, we will be mair dan blyde ta
Shetland - SHD avourite shops; da eens wi da dialect names.
Shetland - SHD tly spaek aboot ‘spaekin da dialect’ or even juist ‘spaekin d
Shetland - SHD n spaek aboot ‘preservin da dialect’ is laek da dumba at da pir
Shetland - SHD an fock spack, noo hit’s da dialect at some Shaetlan fock spaeks.
Shetland - SHD ht if you ir spaekin aboot da dialect.
Central - LAL mairks that set it aff frae a dialect. We at Eemis Stane like tae t
Shetland - SHD er wirds, ta caa a language a dialect is juist whit you caa it fae
Shetland - SHD s. Caase if you standardise a dialect, dan hit’s no a dialect ony
Doric - DOR east Scotland, far we speak a dialect
Central - LAL unity leid they micht speak a dialect o Scots forby English
Shetland - SHD differ atween a language an a dialect
Shetland - SHD ida eighteent century. Bein a dialect o Scots, hit's a closs freend
Central - GLAitten by a Scottish Sikh in a dialect of Scottish Panjabi?
Shetland - SHD oot it. Bit leeteracy ithin a dialect wid be anidder contradiction
Shetland - SHD at, in practice, we tink on a dialect as a language if hit haes a r
Shetland - SHD etlan wis a language, an no a dialect, dan whit Morton is describin
Shetland - SHD , dan hit’s no a dialect ony mair - hit’s a languag
Shetland - SHD a Burra teacher spaekin Burra dialect ta bairns in Whaalsa, dat’s
Ulster - CUL early 17th Century. Es it's a dialect o Scots it haes close hnks wi
Orkney - ORKd in both island groups. As a dialect word for small, peerie would
Shetland - SHD d, we tink on a language as a dialect if hit haes nae written form.
Shetland - SHD ms ta want it ta live on as a dialect - or, redder, a lock o diffe
Shetland - SHD Shaetlan onything idder as a dialect; an onything at you dui wi a
Shetland - SHD i a language at’s kent as a dialect, idder as laeve hit be, man b
Central - SECae hiv ony power. A leid is a dialect wi a flag an navy, aye?
Shetland - SHD nswer wid be "A language is a dialect wi a airmy an a navy", fur it
Central - LALot says that 'a language is a dialect wi an army an navy.' Dae ye a
Central - LAL uoth yer man, a language is a dialect wi a literature. Weel, here's
Shetland - SHD eence sed at a language is a dialect wi a airmy an a navy. I wid t
Central - SEC significance, Yorkshire IS a dialect o English - but Scots ISNAE.
Shetland - SHD nically standard English is a dialect tui, bit as we aa kaen, datâ€
Shetland - SHD r languages, an Shaetlan is a dialect. An if you try ta win awa fae
Shetland - SHD gaein ta kill aff da Whaalsa dialect. We pit up wi aa kinds o diff
Shetland - SHD teachers condamnin da Whaalsa dialect, da bairns at da schuil is re
Central - LAL el, in semple terms, it’s a dialect o Inglish influenced by Lawla
Doric - MNA "Is't a dialect or a language,
Shetland - SHD er be teckled under da public dialect concept, caase dat concept co
Shetland - SHD Shaetlan. Bit under da public dialect concept an da Scottish anti-o
Doric - DOR The Doric dialect is somethin that his served o
Southern - SWE_Ally @ScotNational The Doric dialect o the nor-east is giein it bi
Doric - MNA debut album aifter the Doric dialect has a spleet album oot this s
Central - LALgin boy, who adopts the Doric dialect of North-East Scots for his c
Doric - MNAspread wirdie aboot oor Doric dialect cwid ye pls help wi a RT an h
Orkney - ORK@molach95 Intra-Island dialect still extant here on Westray
Shetland - SHD#Shetland dialect: Da Night at Christ Wis Born
Shetland - SHD raged ta write i' da Shetland dialect... wir midder tongue, as da g
Shetland - SHD ere will always be a Shetland dialect, just as there will always be
Shetland - SHD "; "standard Shetland dialect"; "dialect policy"; an "diale
Shetland - SHD mar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect (GUSD for short - or FLAN, a
Shetland - SHD mar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, or on my ain website, or da
Shetland - SHD ginally given at the Shetland dialect conference Dialect '04)
Shetland - SHD aestly caa it ‘The Shetland Dialect.’ Whin we wir spaekin in Sh
Shetland - SHD , Shetland Scots, an Shetland dialect. Athin Shetland itsel, dey ca
Central - LAL Christ Wis Born' in Shetland dialect: https://t.co/g1agE50CDb #Sco
Central - LAL dee an dy is used in Shetland dialect, saelike 'thou', 'thee' an 't
Shetland - SHDWhen spikkin in Shetland dialect, normalise axin whit da ‘Eng
Shetland - SHDivity fir tweetin in Shetland dialect but I'm lippnin it willna be
Shetland - SHDritin mair tweets in Shetland dialect I'm gained 150ish new followe
Shetland - SHD y wid say at hit wis Shetland Dialect.
Shetland - SHD laim at dae wir a ‘Shetland dialect,’ even if hit consistit o p
Shetland - SHD can still be caad ‘Shetland dialect’. So whin whit I caa Shaetl
Shetland - SHD tradiction, caase ‘Shetland dialect’ is datten oonveive an asky
Central - SEC local vernacular phrases and dialect by celebrating its richness a
Central - LAL be varied: whiles it will be dialect an on occasion it winna
Shetland - SHD conference Dialect '04)
Shetland - SHD Third, since dialect duisna hae ony consistent gra
Doric - MNA Rev Walter Gregor 1866. 'The dialect of Banffshire, with a glossar
Central - GLA ally in 1865. Glaswegian, the dialect ae Scots spoke mainly in Gles
Central - LAL strial area near Glasgow, the dialect has become hopelessly corrupt
Doric - MNA the mair  Doric: the dialect of North-East Scotland absurd
Central - GLA ur as the local colour ae the dialect goes.
Central - LAL ut demography at the time the dialect wis furmed, whan the province
Shetland - SHD to write for the sake of the dialect form rather than for emotiona
Central - LAL village, forming part of the dialect continuum between areas to th
Central - LAL n Donegal an Monaghan, an the dialect adoptit by speakers o Ulster
Central - LALmary schuil) focussed oan the dialect o Dundee: https://t.co/Ip1xVU
Central - LAL Scots an Irish oreegin in the dialect, wi the first group predomina
Central - LAL maist widespreid furms o the dialect
Shetland - SHD the temptation to render the dialect thought in the English that m
Central - LAL onybody could think that the dialect o Glasgow isna guid Scots is
Central - LAL t by the semple fact that the dialect is Inglish raither nor Scots,
Central - LAL innin infurms us that ‘The dialect has been greatly influenced b
Central - DUN Here's ti a bonnie dialect, that si many
Shetland - SHDn da idder haand I wid say me dialect tweets get mair engagement as
Ulster - GULnaghan Japers! Thon's a quare dialect you hae! We hae a wheen mair
Central - SEC ah get, the mair ma Yorkshire dialect kicks in. Mebbes that's hou a
Central - SEC ocked for my uise o Yorkshire dialect - not in ma ain kintrae, an
Central - SEC Tak Burns: he mixes Ayrshire dialect wi Doric an English - fake ba
Shetland - SHD Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect
Shetland - SHD still can ta say - lang live dialect.
Central - SEC s seems tae be that ma native dialect is the maist direct route tae
Central - LAL Daena use Eye Dialect whan writin formal like in Sc
Shetland - SHD laek "standardised system of dialect"; "standard Shetland dialect"
Central - SWE re steeped in the downpour of dialect
Central - SWE re steeped in the downpour of dialect
Shetland - SHD to give the varying forms of dialect a jarringly jargonistic name?
Shetland - SHD nces of the Public Concept of Dialect
Shetland - SHD 6. You canna teach dialect.
Central - LAL tae ithers it cuid be a rich dialect wi its byordinar wirds an exp
Central - DUN so dinna tell me that meh dialect,
Central - DUN thi result is that meh dialect gits strangled,
Central - LAL read aboot the Scots/Yiddish dialect in David Daiches book Two Wor
Ulster - GUL? I cannae thole thon English dialect.
Central - LALingle, identifiable "Scottish dialect" . This lassie is daein her b
Southern - SWEnBurnett16 Aye the auld Leith dialect is still aboot but mainly in
Doric - MNAellano, but blethered in Cali dialect, usin words like pelao (loon)
Central - DUN rds - naethin ava tae dae wi dialect, the mannie wis jist a bad sp
Doric - MNA with the spellings and local dialect."
Doric - MNA Do you speak in the local dialect, Ronnie? said the neest messa
Doric - MNA dee research aboot yer local dialect o Scots in yer schuil an comm
Central - SEC them to only use their local dialect." Thare speaks a wifie that's
Central - LAL glish an a tait o their local dialect blendit intil the teachin. At
Central - LAL if ye are leal til a regional dialect.
Ulster - GULmely Tongue" an a wheen o aul dialect glossaries inaboot the US Aca
Central - LAL an dialect variations
Ulster - GULeuch that lies atween leid an dialect! Jest spake it an dinnae both
Doric e wee quine her native Buchan dialect. Fan A spiert gin this wes fi
Doric - DOR Lothian’s Northumbrian dialect, entered the touns o the Nor
Shetland - SHD ‘That insufferable Frisian dialect’ which ‘puts so many obst
Shetland - SHD ae ta baese da spellin on wan dialect - a central Mainland ene, sa
Ulster - GULre's a slabbery sheuch atween dialect an language: I dinnae get her
Shetland - SHD aetlan, da distinction atween dialect an language didna crop up -
Shetland - SHD nts oot at da contrast atween dialect an language onnly comes aboot
Central - LAL ed. Gin ye’r writin yer ain dialect, ye micht write gid or gyid o
Shetland - SHD tocht’ accordin tae dir ain dialect, ony mair as Freda Laesk duis
Central - EDN wi their ain leid, their ain dialect, ken its value tae theirsels
Shetland - SHD eks. In idder wirds, fae bein dialect fae a UK point o view in a na
Central - LAL ardonnay.’ Apairt frae bein dialect-specific (the speakers o the
Shetland - SHD or word processed. Writing in dialect is forever dealing with the t
Shetland - SHD duisna spaek aboot ‘spaekin dialect’ dey spaek aboot ‘spaekin
Shetland - SHD ’ or even juist ‘spaekin dialect.’ Ta me, dis shaas a change
Shetland - SHDpired me tae start tweetin in dialect, mainly becis I saa the abuse
Shetland - SHD aboot da problems o writin in dialect.
Ulster - GULthe sheuch hae mair writin in dialect: Kelman, Welsh, Robertson.
Shetland - SHD dern things laek computers in dialect.) In a lairnin context, whit
Shetland - SHDae I started writin tweets in dialect.
Central - LAL n weys o wirkin ower an abuin dialect uiss, grundit on tradeetional
Shetland - SHD nae rights n wrangs wi mixin dialect and English in Da Shetlands ?
Shetland - SHD weel as cannin ta nairoo doon dialect as muckle as we laek, we can
Central - LAL oots gang back tae a northern dialect o Auld English/Anglo-Saxon. I
Orkney - ORK e Orkney tongue, a gatheran o dialect writers tae perform thir wark
Shetland - SHD national context, hit’s noo dialect even fae a Shaetlan point o v
Shetland - SHD ffgaeng o da public concept o dialect.
Shetland - SHD neetion o da public concept o dialect as I’m heard. Dat’s certa
Shetland - SHD aspect o da public concept o dialect at Miller duis agree wi. He w
Shetland - SHD shoard up da public concept o dialect.
Shetland - SHD glary.’ Da public concept o dialect means at hit haes nae identit
Shetland - SHD agree wi dis public concept o dialect. Hoosumever, hit seems ta me
Shetland - SHD ustrates dis public concept o dialect in ene o his ‘Nippy Sweetie
Shetland - SHD hit’s dis public concept o dialect at we hae ta wirk wi, caase i
Central - LAL ke. Ye micht hae a parteeclar dialect kenspeckle tae whaur ye belan
Central - LAL ellings belangin a parteeclar dialect, it shuid be a conscious ettl
Central - SEC upbringin giein him a richer dialect than maist.
Central - LAL o discoorse is the Mid-Ulster dialect o Inglish — the wey maist f
Central - LAL land contreebution tae Ulster dialect finds itsel wantin recogneeti
Central - LAL wi ony academic ken o Ulster dialect aften picked up as a wheen pe
Central - LAL orical or contemporary Ulster dialect as a leid separate frae the S
Doric - MNAte all Scots words, whichever dialect of Scots they come from. The
Central - LAL the ane maist suitit tae yer dialect. Anither choice is tae use an
Shetland - SHD wir dialect - wir language, caa hit whit
Central - EDN an the fauchlin 'language or dialect' debate hauds hingin aboot wi
Shetland - SHD ertie Deyell Memorial Cup for dialect writin at da Waas Show tree t
Central - WCE ang, ma mither said. Slang or dialect, leid or tung? Strangulated o
Central - SWE dinged doon for slang nor dialect.
Doric - MNAre noo blessed wi spikkin oor dialect? http://t.co/kA4FmAwvBx
Doric - MNAny wordies an phrasies in oor dialect - see http://t.co/OSnU62HIjG
Doric - MNA mistic aboot the future o oor dialect – a future far Ah hope wiâ€
Central - LAL according tae age, gender or dialect? @DrMDempster @rhona_alcorn #
Shetland - SHD You passed on respect fur dialect:
Doric - MNAonvert text straight into our dialect and send it to folk on Facebo
Shetland - SHD maest fock wid say at dis wis dialect; an maybe - caase o da pronu
Shetland - SHD fock wid still say at dis wis dialect - an here we’r comin closs
Shetland - SHD 8. Fock at spaeks dialect needna can ta read or write i
Shetland - SHD mak mistaks in a grammarless dialect. If somene spells ‘plaet’
Central - LALise her ain Shetlandic #Scots dialect https://t.co/P7fp68BtUc via @
Central - LAL tus o Ulster Scots as a Scots dialect is aften slung a deifie for t
Central - DUN Yazin thi Scots dialect ti great effect
Central - SEC airt regairds thair ain Scots dialect as thair Mither Tung. Sae, No
Central - EDN Aye, they were speakin Scots dialect o English, but still. That's
Central - LAL n’, in the north-east Scots dialect o Doric.
Central - LAL wantin tae write in ony Scots dialect, or deed, nae parteeclar dial
Shetland - SHD hit’s wrang wi dat? Hit’s dialect, an you can write hit ony wye
Central - WCE ‘It’s dialect.’
Central - SEC Yes we have a rich distinct dialect and accent, but it is doubtfu
Ulster - GULland: I'm wi you, it's a daft dialect! Oorsels Alane #UlsterScots #
Ulster - GULn a birl my freend: thon daft dialect they caa "English" wull no la
Ulster - GULn the Ulster Scots: thon daft dialect English wull never last! ; )
Ulster - GULdoonby Beragh spake thon daft dialect English that they hae in the
Ulster - GULScots? Cannae thole thon daft dialect they caa "English" ava.
Ulster - GULbackey cannae thole thon daft dialect English ava! ; )
Ulster - GULn Blethers! Doon wi thon daft dialect they caa "English"! Cannae th
Ulster - GULd glipes are spakin thon daft dialect English whan I hae my back tu
Ulster - GULaniver, blethers in thon daft dialect English are quare an haird ta
Ulster - GULer", but better nor thon daft dialect English! Aa the best! https:/
Ulster - GULI'm no very good at thon daft dialect "English", but we'll hae them
Central - LAL/Mam's Day, dependin oan whit dialect ye yaise! #Scots #ScotsEdu ht
Central - LAL@berni_hinn Whit dialect is that?
Central - LAL hron. It daesna aye shaw whit dialect a word belangs an this shuid
Central - LAL leids. Scots isna a corruptit dialect o Staundart Soothron an sae S
Doric - MNB.6 miles away its a different dialect...love it
Shetland - SHD dentity, we’r spaekin aboot dialect, at haes a connotation o back
Shetland - SHD fae whin we’r spaekin aboot dialect.
Doric - SNO omi Mitchison is talkin aboot dialect, she laments that it’s: ‘
Shetland - SHD ext, whit bairns lairns aboot dialect can onnly be OIOO - onything
Shetland - SHD ter on mi palm’ is nae doot dialect. If I come across da phrase â
Central - LALWha spaeks the Orkney dialect? RT an click here: https://t.
Orkney - ORK sense o optimism aboot Orkney dialect, a widespried feeleen at wir
Central - LALDae yer lairners yaise ony dialect wirds? How may o them dae ye
Shetland - SHD it’s a language. Da wird ‘dialect’ haes da effect o makkin da
Shetland - SHD anguage viewpoint. Da wird ‘dialect’ implies at ee language is
Shetland - SHD ˜varying forms’. Da wird ‘dialect’ here is laek a collective
Shetland - SHD t agen, if we oese da wird ‘dialect’, hit’s da public concept
Shetland - SHD If da wird ‘dialect’ haes inherent in hits mean
Shetland - SHD If da wird ‘dialect’ can cover aathing idder as
Shetland - SHD ists micht mean bi da wird ‘dialect’, hit’s dis public concep
Shetland - SHD . You can brack da wird ‘dialect’ doon as faar as you laek -
Shetland - SHD Ta shaa foo I tink da wird ‘dialect’ differs fae da wird ‘Sha
Shetland - SHD So whaar da wird ‘dialect’ wis wint ta be a English d
Shetland - SHD an mair fock oeses da wird ‘dialect’ ta describe da Shaetlan to
Shetland - SHD - we onnly needit da wird ‘dialect’ if we wir spaekin English,
Shetland - SHD ations, dan, duis dis wird ‘dialect’ hae?
Shetland - SHD ta oese ony wird idder as ‘dialect’ ta describe da Shaetlan to
Shetland - SHD fock spack - noo hit’s ‘dialect’; dat is, da perspective se
Shetland - SHD Saecond, hit points oot at ‘dialect’ consists o ‘varying form
Shetland - SHD fluences foo we tink aboot ‘dialect’ in Shaetlan. Whit’s prog
Shetland - SHD no - we’r spaekin aboot ‘dialect’. An as we kaen, i da publi
Shetland - SHD o whit we mean whin we say ‘dialect’?
Shetland - SHD actually mean whin we say ‘dialect’. Whit we mean is, in effec
Central - LAL it as a ‘Hiberno-Inglish’ dialect in the same wey as ye coud de
Central - LAL it as an ‘Irish Inglish’ dialect is appen tae debate. That wad
Central - LAL this ‘hopelessly corrupt’ dialect.