The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland: Its Pronunciation, Grammar, and Historical Relations ; with an Appendix on the Present Limits of the Gaelic and Lowland Scotch, and the Dialectical Divisions of the Lowland Tongue ; and a Linguistical Map of ScotlandPhilogical Society, 1873 - 251 pàgines |
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The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland: Its Pronunciation, Grammar ... James Augustus Henry Murray Visualització completa - 1873 |
The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland: Its Pronunciation, Grammar ... James Augustus Henry Murray Visualització completa - 1873 |
The Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland: Its Pronunciation, Grammar ... James Augustus Henry Murray Visualització completa - 1873 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
16th century aald adjectives Angles Anglo-Saxon aucht auxiliary Barbour Bernicia bruther Caithness Celtic Complaynt of Scotland consonant Cursor Cursor Mundi diphthong distinct dynna eäne England fræ French fuok Gaelic gang Gawain Gawain Douglas geate Gerund guttural Hampole Hawick inflection king kyng language leyke literary English Lothian Lyndesay modern mycht Naaomie nocht North Northern dialect Northumbrian noun original past participle period Picts plural pronounced pronunciation quha quhat quheae quhen quhilk retained sall Saxon schui Scotch Scotland Scots Scottis Scottish dialects Scottish writers seae sound Southern Counties Southern English spelling spoken suld syllable syng Teutonic Teviotdale thaim thair thay theare thir thow tongue tweae tyll verb Visible Speech vowel words y)eir þat
Passatges populars
Pàgina 12 - and then chose him for father and for lord, the king of the Scots and the whole nation of the Scots", and Regnold and the son of Eadulf, and all those who dwell in Northumbria, as well English as Danes, and Northmen and others, and also the king of the Strathclyde Britons, and all the Strathclyde Britons.
Pàgina 65 - Quat buik is that, harlot, into thy hand ? Out, walloway! this is the New Test'ment, In Englisch toung and printit in England : Herisie, herisie! fire, fire! incontinent.
Pàgina 49 - There is nocht tua nations vndir the firmament that ar mair contrar and different fra vthirs nor is Inglismen and Scottismen, quhobeit that thai be within ane ile and nychtbours and of ane langage.
Pàgina 46 - The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill Translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir, bi the Reuerend Father in God, Mayster Gawin Douglas Bishop of Dunkel, and unkil to the Erie of Angus.
Pàgina 87 - We may polish and soften our language by this smoothing process, yet in so doing we are forgetting the tongue of our fathers, and, like degenerate children, we are cutting ourselves off from true sympathy with our great Northern progenitors, and depriving our spoken language of a goodly part of its variety of form and grandeur of expression.
Pàgina 46 - His own Scottish language is as different from English as Aragonese from Castilian. The King speaks, besides, the language of the savages who live in some parts of Scotland and on the islands. It is as different from Scottish as Biscayan is from Castilian. His knowledge of languages is wonderful.
Pàgina 66 - The Clargy hearto long repugned ; butt in the end, convicted by reassonis and by multitud of votes in thare contrare, thei also condiscended ; and so by Act of Parliament, it was maid free to all man and woman to reid the Scriptures in thair awin toung, or in the Engliss toung :8 and so war all Actes maid in the contrair abolished.
Pàgina 47 - Allace ! for one, quhilk lampe wes of this land, Of Eloquence the flowand balmy strand, And in our Inglis rethorick, the rose, As of rubeis the charbunckle bene chose ! And, as Phebus dois Cynthia precell, So Gawane Dowglas, Byschope of Dunkell, Had, quhen he wes in to this land on lyve, Abufe vulgare Poeitis prerogatyve, Boith in pratick and speculatioun.
Pàgina 232 - the outside limits of the Gaelic, that is, every district is included in which Gaelic is still spoken by any natives, regardless of the fact that English may be spoken by the majority of the people.
Pàgina 237 - Eeformation, and to the use of the Lowland Scotch in public worship and the parish schools, for its disappearance there. No mention of this division of the Erse stock is found in the earliest records, and they appear to have occupied, in the 8th or 9th century, a territory formerly held by the Britons. Celtic scholars distinguish three dialects in the Scottish Gaelic, a Northern, a Central, and a South-western (see Map).