SCOTTISH ACCENT

Location
Received Pronunciation (RP) Scottish accent
Non-rhotic Rhotic
Distinction between /a: , ᴂ/; /u: , ʊ/; /ɔ: , No distinction: ant=aunt; soot=suit;
ɒ/ caught=cot
It has diphthongs /ɪə, eə, ʊə/ No diphthongs: beard /bi:rd/; fare [feːɹ]
/eɪ/  fare /feɪr/ Monophthongal [eː]
/əʊ/  coat /kəʊ/ Monophthongal [oː]  [koːt]
Dark l [ɫ]  after a vowel Dark l in all positions  [ɫitɫ]
The nurse words may be represented as
/ir/ as in sir, /ʌr/ as in burst, word, /ɛr/ as
in heard.
Good  /ɡʊd/ [ɡid]
Home  /həʊm/ [hem]
Force words have the goat vowel, giving
/fors/ as well as in store, sport, course.
In the happy words (happy, pretty,
Julie, commitee,etc) use the same souns
as in kit
H-pronuncing and Voiceless /ʍ/ occurs
in words spelt wh-
OTHER FEATURES
 There is an extra consonant phoneme /x/, used in a
small number of specific Scottish words. Example:
loch  /lɔx/
 Plosives /p,t,k/ are weakly aspirated.
 Glottal replacement of /t/
 Intonation: Glasgow (in the west) is noteworthy for
terminal rising patterns but these are largely absent
in the eastern (Edimburgh) people.
 Cannot  /'kanə/
 Didn’t  /'dinə/
 Words like Wood, took are pronounced with the goose
vowel /u:/, exactly the same as food,moved.
 /r/ with a strong tap (remember)