Category Archives: dialects
Burns night: supper, poetry and an ode to a haggis
As a Scot – and an Ayrshire Scot at that – Robert Burns and his poetry have always been important to me and I’ll be raising a glass to his ‘immortal memory’ tonight as Scots the world over celebrate Burns night. The unofficial national bard of Scotland (and voted the greatest ever Scot in a [...]
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Translation: to Bengali or not to Bengali?
Our production manager Sanjoy Roy highlights a common confusion about Bengali usage The Bengali language is the language of Bengal, right? Well, not wrong – but it’s not as simple as that. In the UK there’s quite a lot of confusion about what Bengali is, so I’ll try to clarify that here. First, let me [...]
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How would you answer “Fit like ma loon?”
Me I stood and let my jaw drop, wondering what language it was. In fact it turned out the question was in English. Or at least the variant of it spoken in the north east of Scotland. I was asked the question when introducing myself to a family I was to stay with in a [...]
Multilingual London: mosaic of “Englishes”