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	<title>Comments on: Epic Scottish Rapper Looks Just Like Half-Life 2&#8217;s Father Grigori</title>
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		<title>By: AC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s a clue or two....in Aberdeenshire and parts of Moray the local (Doric Scots) dialect substitutes an &#039;f&#039; sound for the &#039;wh&#039; sound at the beginning of certain words.

So &quot;fuar&#039;s ma mince&quot; can be written in Standard English as &quot;where&#039;s my mince&quot;.

In the same way, &quot;fit kinna bliddy caper&#039;s this&quot; (my favourite line in the rap) means &quot;What kind of bloody caper&#039;s this&quot;.

Most modern variants of Lowland Scots can be easily deciphered by speakers of Standard English with very little practise because they mostly consist of English words with non-standard pronunciation of certain vowel sounds. There are very few words of pure Scots origin still used in common parlance anywhere in Scotland.

If you guys thought this was hard, try translating something in Gaelic!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s a clue or two&#8230;.in Aberdeenshire and parts of Moray the local (Doric Scots) dialect substitutes an &#8216;f&#8217; sound for the &#8216;wh&#8217; sound at the beginning of certain words.</p>
<p>So &#8220;fuar&#8217;s ma mince&#8221; can be written in Standard English as &#8220;where&#8217;s my mince&#8221;.</p>
<p>In the same way, &#8220;fit kinna bliddy caper&#8217;s this&#8221; (my favourite line in the rap) means &#8220;What kind of bloody caper&#8217;s this&#8221;.</p>
<p>Most modern variants of Lowland Scots can be easily deciphered by speakers of Standard English with very little practise because they mostly consist of English words with non-standard pronunciation of certain vowel sounds. There are very few words of pure Scots origin still used in common parlance anywhere in Scotland.</p>
<p>If you guys thought this was hard, try translating something in Gaelic!</p>
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		<title>By: Michael the Dumb Tech Geek</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>... I watched the whole video and have no idea what he was saying. I can&#039;t repost it, cuz for all I know he&#039;s swearing profusely. Was that a random pic of a naked Santa? Who still speaks Scottish anyway??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; I watched the whole video and have no idea what he was saying. I can&#8217;t repost it, cuz for all I know he&#8217;s swearing profusely. Was that a random pic of a naked Santa? Who still speaks Scottish anyway??</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Pagan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam Pagan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I couldn&#039;t watch more than 15 seconds, it was too terrifying. But the Half-Life guy reminds me of Shel Silverstein.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I couldn&#8217;t watch more than 15 seconds, it was too terrifying. But the Half-Life guy reminds me of Shel Silverstein.</p>
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