Practicing an North Old Scots Poem

A. J. Aitken: How to pronounce Older Scots (1977)

[@quadeevans6484]

English Teacher: The text isn't that hard to understand The Text:

[@Artur_M.]

It seems almost more understandable than Middle English.

[@blockheadgreen_]

Modern Scots hasn't diverged enormously from its older forms in both vocabulary and pronunciation, and almost seems like a time capsule - especially compared with English, though that varies in some dialects moreso than others.

[@ignotumperignotius630]

More modern!

[@justalosthyena5563]

This is way easier to understand than English of the time, at least to me. Both in reading and writing. Ain’t that wild?

[@grumpycato8314]

Yeah, it happens when you use the aphabet properly

[@blockheadgreen_]

It's not much different from what's spoken in that region even now, it's like a time capsule

[@clarysse6059]

the gUUUUd lord. -love this- keep on being amazing

[@nostalgiakarlk.f.7386]

This channel is linguistics ASMR.

[@alkha4711]

Sounds like an ancient version of one of Robert Burns’s poems. Keep up the good work though!

[@verybritishgamedevrbx6755]

Good pronounciation

[@garybacon659]

How old is this? I have a much easier time with it than say, Chaucer.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

Just about contemporary to him

[@PhilosophyofElivagar]

@@user-td4do3op2d Mate do you not have google? Chaucer was around in the 14th century.

[@blakops000007]

Dude, you became so old good in middle English you forgot modern English and written "an North Old Scots Poem"

[@16tonw8]

Speed up to 1.2 speed for a conversational-sounding reading

[@bobbestt]

it would be cool if you did a evolution of portugueses language video

[@GrandeSalvatore96]

Does anyone know of an accurate date as to when this may have been written?

[@the_miracle_aligner]

Spoilers????

[@samuelterry6354]

Why is early Scots easier to understand than modern Doric?

[@jamesgallic6774]

The "quh" is known to be said as /xw/ now but as this is a North East poem the author himself wouls have likely said it as f though that depends on his audience and such.

[@ABAlphaBeta]

/xw/ was fairly systematic in the 1300s, it became f later on (like English gh)

[@lukey.s9803]

@@ABAlphaBeta The F is from Gaelic influence which was also seen in the Wexford English

[@iosifzoicadaniela3897]

Why old english and german resembles with enochian?

[@SuperGman117]

Enochian was """"""discovered"""""" by a Renaissance era Englishman

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Subtitles?

[@erebus7306]

Do it again but with a really exaggerated Scottish accent

[@thomasboi2255]

An north? Ok

[@kingrednax6000]

all i understood was FREEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!!

[@lautaropineiro6464]

Hey! Do you study Linguistics?

[@ABAlphaBeta]

History, I'm an amateur linguist (you could somewhat say I minored in ancient languages though)

[@lautaropineiro6464]

@@ABAlphaBeta Noice!

[@eldon4905]

@@ABAlphaBeta how and where did you study all of this

[@Jay-uu5lu]

I don't consider low land scots a dialect