ScotE

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See also: scote and Scote

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ScotE

  1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of Scottish English.
    • 1990, Jerold A. Edmondson, Crawford Feagin, Peter Mühlhäusler, Development and diversity: language variation across time and space:
      Quite a number of EE urban and rural dialects, educated English speech, IrE, and ScotE cannot be ruled out.
    • 1998, Marianne Hundt, New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in Morphosyntactic Variation, →ISBN:
      But NZE allegedly resembles ScotE in taking the avoidance one step further: will is used instead of shall with first-person pronouns .in questions to express offers or suggestions as in Will I close the window?
    • 2013, Gunnel Melchers, Philip Shaw, World Englishes, →ISBN, page 77:
      Like ScotE, IrE has certain word stress patterns that differ from RP (in -ise verbs, for example), but there are few categorical differences and a great deal of variability.

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