In this thread we love the Scottish Wikipedia

[Jon_Dahl]

Dunnies & Draigons is a weel kent fantasy role-playin gemme oreegialy shapit bi Gary Gygax an Dave Arneson. It wis first prentit in 1974 bi Gygax’s company, Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. (TSR). The gemme is nou prentit by Wizards of the Coast, a diveesion o Hasbro. Ite wis taen frae the little gemmes o war, wi a variation o the Chainmail gemme serrin as the first rule seestem. The publication is thocht tae be the beginin o modren role-playin gemmes an the hale gemmes industry.
Source: http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunnys_%26_Dragons


A keeng is a male monarch (The female mak is a queen), or a heid o state, that micht or micht no, dependin on the style o govrenment o a nation, exerce keengly pouers ower a kintra for ordinar cried a kinrick. A keeng is the seicont heichmaist noble teetle, dingit anerly by emperor. A keeng aften weirs a kynd o seembolic heidgear kent as a croun.
Source: http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeng

Hugs and kisses to all Scottish playgrounders! Write more articles, please!

[FinnLassie]

Och aye, Scots. :smallbiggrin:

I personally prefer the Scots Gaelic wiki, though. :smallwink:

[Brother Oni]

I shudder to think how unintelligible the Doric or Glaswegian versions would be...

[Grinner]

...And my amusement went as suddenly as it came. I felt a great and terrible presence wash over me, and in my heart, I knew the agonized screams of three million high school English teachers.

Thanks for making my day. :smallbiggrin:

[FinnLassie]

Eh, but why would the English teachers be agonising? Scots is a proper language and a'. :smallwink:

[SaintRidley]

Eh, but why would the English teachers be agonising? Scots is a proper language and a'. :smallwink:

Aye.

I love it. It's a sister language to English and you can see the far lessened Norman influence in the language too.



The Auld Inglis leid is a wast Germanic leid that wis spak in Breetain atween aboot 425 an 1125. Hit is an early furm o Inglis an Scots, an is sib wi Auld Frisian an Auld Saxon. Wast Saxon wis the heidmaist mak o Auld Inglis in the auncient corpus, includin the epic poem Beowulf, as the Wast Saxons wis the strangest kinrick o thon time, while the Northumbrian dialect o Auld Inglis eventually becam the Scots leid.
O aw the descendants o Auld Inglis, Scots and Northumbrian Inglis are the maist true tae the oreeginal furm.
Auld Inglisc/Scots
Eald Englisc/Auld Inglis
hit/hit
ēacod/eikit
sibb/sib
mǣst/maist
ġefunden/fund
þōht/thocht
ōhsta/oxter



Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, conseedered ane o the maist important pieces o Anglo-Saxon leetaratur. It descrives the life o Beowulf, a hero, an later keeng, o the Geats (pairt o modren day Swaden), an is set aroon Denmark an Swaden. It wis writ atweesh the 8t an 11t centuries bi an unbekent author.

[Mando Knight]

Eh, but why would the English teachers be agonising? Scots is a proper language and a'. :smallwink:

Here's some of Wikipedia's notes on the matter. (http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid#Some_grammar_featurs)

[Brother Oni]

I love it. It's a sister language to English and you can see the far lessened Norman influence in the language too.

Is it just me, or is it much easier to understand those articles while sounding it out with a Scots accent?

[Socratov]

I know it's definitely better readable when drinking copious amounts of whisky

[Aedilred]

Is it just me, or is it much easier to understand those articles while sounding it out with a Scots accent?
It is. But then it's difficult to read it out loud in anything but a Scottish accent. Differences in pronunciation account for many if not most of the differences in spelling, since the languages diverged before spelling became standardised.

Even Middle English is surprisingly comprehensible if read aloud.

[Morph Bark]

"Where are we going for dinner?"
"Oh, we'll just hop on by at Dunnies."