Scottish dialect
Edinburgh native tongue
Scottish dialect refers to varieties of English or Scots spoken in Scotland, characterized by distinctive vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
Words like *wee* (small), *ken* (know), and *braw* (fine) mark Scottish speech, along with features like rolled R sounds and the guttural *ch* in *loch*.
The term sometimes conflates Scots—a language related to but distinct from English—with Scottish-accented English.
- liltRhythmic speech quality
- weeExtremely small
- DoricAustere classical column style
- Robert BurnsScottish national poet
- lassYouthful female
Anglicization · code-switching · phonology · morphology · etymology · Celtic roots · Burns · Edinburgh · loch · prosody · laddie · bonnie · Highlands · Glasgow · haggis · kirk · Gaelic · auld
- Scottish literatureRobert Burns, Trainspotting, Robert Louis Stevenson, Waverley, Treasure Island
prestige/standardization
Scottish dialectRP
Prestige British accent
Queen's English · King's English · BBC English · Standard English · Oxford English