pig's dialect

james.kellar · 12 Feb 2001, 09:11 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: james.kellar at quantel.com
Subject: (whorl) pig's dialect
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:11:47 +0000
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hello all

there's no doubt whatsoever that Pig's dialect is intended to be Scottish, =
as opposed to Irish or
Welsh.
'dinna fash' and other similar expressions are giveaways (to British ears, =
at least). I don't have
the book in front of me, but the author even goes as far as to explain that=
 when Pig says  'wind' it
sounds like 'fiend'. Has anyone got an idea as to which part of Scotland he=
's from? It sounds
reasonably old-fashioned to me, I think.

Pig as godling sounds like a plausible hypothesis - after all, the chapter'=
s title could easily be
read as referring to more than just the last paragraph, couldn't it?

gerbil

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