Dialects of English: Northern and Insular Scots (original) (raw)
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| Dialects of English Northern and Insular Scots by Robert McColl Millar |  |
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This website hosts the audio files which accompany the volumes of the Dialects of English book series. The files are made available free of charge, but are copyrighted and may only be used for the purposes of teaching and research. They may not be copied, further distributed or sold in any form. The author of Northern and Insular Scots is Robert McColl Millar.
The sound files provided here are recordings made around Shetland, Orkney and North-East Scotland in 2005 and 2006.
Transcriptions of the recordings (in both a Scots form of English spelling and a broad phonemic representation) are provided in chapter 7 of Northern and Insular Scots(the relevant chapter and section numbers are given in parentheses for each recording below). The recordings have been broken into small parts: to hear the recording, click on the link for each part. The recordings are in WAV format, which should play on all media players.
Shetland - Unst (section 7.1.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]
Shetland - Yell (section 7.1.2) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8] [part 9]
Shetland - Whalsay (section 7.1.3) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8]
Shetland - Lerwick (originally northern mainland) (section 7.1.4) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6]
Shetland - Voe (section 7.1.5) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5]
Shetland - Walls & Sandness (western mainland) (section 7.1.6) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8]
Shetland - Lerwick (section 7.1.7) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]
Orkney - Kirkwall (originally western mainland) (section 7.2.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5]
Orkney - St Ola (section 7.2.2) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3]
Caithness - Wick (section 7.3.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]
The Black Isle (section 7.4.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6]
Mid-Northern B - Aberdeen (originally Elgin) (section 7.5.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]
Mid-Northern A - Peterhead (section 7.6.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8]
Mid-Northern A - Boddam, near Peterhead (section 7.6.2) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5]
South Northern - Hillside (section 7.7.1) [part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4]
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