Ee Begorrah, Mon, Whateffer
AJOR LAMPEN spoke on "Dialect" from 3YA the other morning and not unnaturally began with Burns. But this fact illustrates a point that has recently been made with some vigour by Scottish literary historians; that by Burns’ day the Scottish tongue had in reality become a dialect of English"English badly spelt," says Eric Link-later-whereas in Dunbar’s time it had been an independent tongue self-rooted in its own soil, After the Union of 1707 Scots, they say, sank to a comic version of English and lost its true self. Perhaps this illuminates the very interesting fact mentioned by the speaker, that there is no Welsh equivalent to the Scottish, Irish, Jewish, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Cockney comics. The reason is perhaps that the Welsh, able at need to fall back on their own Celtic tongue-there are still a few ancients who have no English ~--kept themselves sufficiently apart to avoid the essentially patronising and possessive attitude of standard English which regards dialect as automatically funny.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 8
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167Ee Begorrah, Mon, Whateffer New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 343, 18 January 1946, Page 8
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