Words Scots use

When my DD and family first moved to Argyll, one of the first things my DGD, age 6, had to do was learn a poem in Scots dialect for a competition that the schools were running. She learned the poem, but was at a distinct disadvantage, being the new girl, and English to boot! The first line of the poem was, "My mother thinks that we hae mice, that can open air ticht tins.

When we first moved from Edinburgh to Oxford, my DDs had Scottish accents. DD1 was five and started at a new school. The other kids would get her to say girl and world and similar words. They loved the rich r sounds that almost made the words two-syllabic

It was interesting to witness the change in their accents as the years went by. The vowel differences were the either the first to go or the last. I can't remember now.