{"id":3086,"date":"2010-09-29T23:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T03:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2018-08-05T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T02:20:23","slug":"wednesday-september-29-2010-%e2%80%95-orkney-dialect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, September 29, 2010 \u2015 Orkney Dialect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I had been warned that the Orkney dialect was \u201cdif\u00adfi\u00adcult,\u201d but it is per\u00adfect\u00adly com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble to any Cana\u00addi\u00adan, and extreme\u00adly pleas\u00ading to the ear. The into\u00adna\u00adtion pat\u00adtern, in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, reminds me of Cana\u00addi\u00adan speech in the Atlantic Provinces. <!--more-->Though the con\u00adso\u00adnants are dif\u00adfer\u00adent, its vow\u00adel and diph\u00adthong s only a short shift away. The \u201cCana\u00addi\u00adan ris\u00ading\u201d that Amer\u00adi\u00adcans find so amus\u00ading is tak\u00aden a step fur\u00adther. Sim\u00adi\u00adlar\u00adly, the Orca\u00addi\u00adan pitch pat\u00adtern is only slight\u00adly dif\u00adfer\u00adent from what you would hear in Canada\u2019s north\u00adern\u00admost regions. Except for some pecu\u00adliar\u00adi\u00adties of vocab\u00adu\u00adlary, I nev\u00ader had any dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty under\u00adstand\u00ading Orca\u00addi\u00adans, while I often had to work a bit to under\u00adstand peo\u00adple in Glas\u00adgow, and many of the dialects of Eng\u00adland are prac\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly Mar\u00adt\u00adian to me. Some\u00adtimes, the announce\u00adments in the Lon\u00addon Under\u00adground were com\u00adplete gib\u00adber\u00adish. But when I eaves\u00addropped on the con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion of two elder\u00adly Orkney farm\u00aders, whose speech was obvi\u00adous\u00adly unvar\u00adnished Orca\u00addi\u00adan, it was no chal\u00adlenge. Orca\u00addi\u00adans are soft-spo\u00adken, spar\u00ading in their words, and not rapid speak\u00aders. They are not arm wavers or fin\u00adger point\u00aders. Even teenagers stag\u00adger\u00ading out of the pubs are not keen on shouting.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The old Orca\u00addi\u00adan dialect is not, of course, the only form of Eng\u00adlish spo\u00adken here. There is much pres\u00adsure from schools and media to replace it with Stan\u00addard Scots. The pres\u00adence of sev\u00ader\u00adal thou\u00adsand new\u00adcom\u00aders from all over the British Isles also influ\u00adences speech, as does Orca\u00addi\u00adans trav\u00adel\u00adling to oth\u00ader places and return\u00ading home. Many of the new\u00adcom\u00aders believe the dialect rep\u00adre\u00adsents back\u00adward\u00adness and stu\u00adpid\u00adi\u00adty. Some native Orca\u00addi\u00adans have absorbed this atti\u00adtude, and either tone it down for out\u00adsiders, or aban\u00addon it all\u00adto\u00adgeth\u00ader in favour of what they feel is more pres\u00adti\u00adgeous speech.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been warned that the Orkney dialect was \u201cdif\u00adfi\u00adcult,\u201d but it is per\u00adfect\u00adly com\u00adpre\u00adhen\u00adsi\u00adble to any Cana\u00addi\u00adan, and extreme\u00adly pleas\u00ading to the ear. The into\u00adna\u00adtion pat\u00adtern, in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, reminds me of Cana\u00addi\u00adan speech in the Atlantic Provinces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-aq-blog-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7777,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/7777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}