Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

At 11:55 PM 6/15/99 -0500, you wrote:
>... To boldly diphthongize where no dialect has diphthongized before.
>:-)
Ooh yes.  What amuses me is to hear the typical Northern Irish vowels, much
subdued, when we go to Canada...a routinely unrecognized reminder of all
the "Scots-Irish" immigrants to that part of the world.  (The giveaway is
the pronunciation of the "ow/ou" sound as long [or at least longish] I:
"I'm going ite ni" for "I'm going out now".)

>>... "It's all
>> shite, that's all it is."
>
>It's also used in Scotland, yes?  I remember the line in Braveheart (I
>forget if it was in the movie or the book or both), "They couldn't agree
>on the color of shite".
It may be there as well, but I don't recall hearing it in numerous visits.
Then again, it's so extremely common here that I wonder if Mel or someone
else involved with the film didn't pick it up while they were filming here
(which was mostly:  they only spent about six days in Scotland getting
absolutely necessary mountain scenery, then hightailed it over here to
Wicklow for the next six weeks -- the weather here being warm and dry
instead of cold and wet, and the Irish Army available to "borrow" for the
crowd scenes).

Best! -- Diane


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