About Scots gaelic...

[highlander_Daz]

Irish and Scots Gaelic share about 75% of the same words but many are pronounced differently, the langauage sounds very different than English and an English speaking person would be unable to understand either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language

http://www.savegaelic.org/ this is very good

George W Bush recently used the word "Kerfuffle" in a speech, which is a word derived from Gàidhlig.

Lallans http://www.lallans.co.uk/scots_steids.html

is sometimes spoken in the Lowlands, its a variantion of English and an English speaker can cut through the different pronounciation and understand most of the words

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Language

there is an interesting article on the letter "yogh" which looks like and old Z and resulted in words like "menzies" being pronounced "Mingus" but written "Menzies" becasues the Yogh looks like an old Z rather like a letter 3 so the letter Yogh would be replaced by a Z.

good luck

[Moosehead]

Ah, that would explain why Dalziel is pronounced Diell.

[highlander_Daz]

Correct Moose, the letter "yogh" looks like a number 3 with a tail which is an old way of writing a letter Z. somewhere along the line someone has mistaken the letter Yogh for a Z when writing down names.

[longshadows]

Ah, that would explain why Dalziel is pronounced Diell.

(This is fun!) Check out more on the old "yog" at this excellent site: BBC News


Cheers!

[highlander_Daz]

Quote of the week


"I don't speak Old English or Old Scots. Neither does anybody else. It's pretentious upper-class twaddle.
Neil Hoskins, Aylesbury, UK"

Welcome to Little England!

anyone whos ever worked in PR or sales knows that the easiest way to lose a sale or upset a client is to pronounce thier name wrong -and its basic bad manners.

great article very through, I love the guys asking how to pronounce Yogurt, you couldnt make it up!

[Moosehead]

"I don't speak Old English or Old Scots. Neither does anybody else. It's pretentious upper-class twaddle.

Yes, noticed that. More likely, this gent is a pretentious, upper-class twa...)

[highlander_Daz]

Twaddler?