Re: dialectal diversity in English
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 7, 2003, 10:59 |
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Geordie (Newcastle) is a highly divergent dialect of English, with
accompanying accent, witness for example
/ja div@n wan@ bi gan@n o:t/ "You shouldn't go out", rendered usually as "Ya
divvent want to be gannin' oot", with gradually rising intonation. I find it
quite hard to understand my cousin, who has lived in that area for about 30
years now!
Mike
> In England English dialects can be radically different from the
> standard. I'd still call them dialects as opposed to languages, but they
> is (or rather was, as the dialcts are dying out rapidly) much more
> dialectal diversity in England than in the US and Canad put together (in
> the English language that is).
>
> I consider Scots to be a separate language.
>
> Dan
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