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From: "Phyllis & Ian Macwhirter" <>
Subject: [WIG LIST] pronunciation of McGeoch etc
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:34:03 -0000
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This is fascinating as it opens up the pronounciation AND vocabulary of the
Scots dialects in general.

It's important for genealogists to know how their forefathers spoke, in
particular the idiom used.

I've read that what is spoken in the S.W. Lowlands today has roots in the
old Inglis that was spoken in Northumberland and the Lowlands, before the
Norman invasion of England and before the Union of the Crowns brought more
English English up from the south.

What puzzles me is the seeming lack of Scots words in the correspondence of
my Cairnryan and Glasgow Victorian ancestors. I wonder why the written word
did not (in my family's case) echo what was spoken, at least idiomatically.

Ian

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