Please submit your homework here by midnight Monday April 25th.

Based on class on Friday Nov. 22nd, write up in a blog post of about 150-200 words what you learned about the variety of Scottish English spoken by Andrew Weir. If you weren’t in class, you’ll need to listen to the recordings and discuss how what you here relates to the description in World’s Englishes, making reference to at least 5 examples (you don’t need link sound files on your site this time).

Recording #1

Recording #2

Our word list, courtesy Kaden Holladay:

1.bead
beat
bit
bid
bits
bids
beats
beads
the cow’s mood
10.the vows mooed
need
kneed
sulfur
sofa
loch
challah
lock
Mary
merry
20.marry
Murray
little
fiddle
middle
whittle
bore
bored
28. (deleted)
battery
30.boring
parents
bearings
kit
wheat
pull
full
nurse
university
fir
40.fur
pool
fool
pine
down
about
square
cot
caught
mace
50.maze