Travel

Scottish English:
My experience

By Victoria Penilla 26/09/2018

This summer I went to Scotland, on Scotland’s official website the current

vacation to the cities Glasgow and population is 5.9 million people. Another

Edinburgh and I found out that they talk fact is that in 2015, half of the electricity

in English with a really particular accent, that was consumed in Scotland was

but before I get into English in Scotland, produced by renewable sources.

I’m going to give some facts in general so Scotland’s official languages include:

you get to know Scotland. According to English, Gaelic, Scots and British sign
language, there was a period in time were forward. An interesting fact that I found
out while I was in my trip to Scotland is
Gaelic was almost dead.
that Glasgow is actually the largest city in
Scotland. Another city that I visited is
Edinburgh and the thing that I noticed
about the Scottish English in Edinburgh is
that it’s really harsh to but softer that in
Glasgow. In the east coast they speak with
the same accent but in a higher pitch.

In Scotland, English has been spoken for a

long time since it was used for education,
government and religious matters. When I
went to Scotland I noticed that English is
spoken in a variety of different accents
Before I went to Scotland I heard that
and that even the more sophisticated
people were saying that the Scottish
form of English found in Scotland has very
accent on English is almost impossible to
specific characteristics that only Scottish
understand, but even though English is
English has like changing the grammatical
not my first language and that I learned it
structure in sentences.
in American accent, it was not that
When I visited Glasgow one of the most difficult to understand, only when they
notorious characteristics of their accent is would use the national slang and talked
that they do very harsh “r’s” and also fast but overall it’s not that different. I
when pronouncing and “O” the don’t really recommend you visit Scotland and
round it they say it straight and more that you learn more about their language.

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Shaun. “SCOTTISH ACCENT - EDINBURGH Vs GLASGOW”. Youtube Video, 5:29. Posted (May
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