Ayrshire dialect

The Ayrshire dialect, also known as Ayrshire Scots, is a south-central dialect[1] of the Scots language spoken in Ayrshire.[2] It is notable for being the dialect spoken by Scottish poet Robert Burns.[3][4]

Samples

This is a poem by a P7 student, read by Ayshire poet Rab Wilson:[5]

Plain soacks, fancy soacks,
Multi-coloured weans’ soacks.
Guid soacks, din soacks,
Fit for the bin soacks.

Haill soacks, torn soacks,
Cannae fin its neebor soacks.
Mither’s soacks, faither’s soacks,
Sisters’ and brithers’ soacks.

Nike soacks, umbro soacks,
Cacket wi muck soacks.
Soapy soacks, dreepin soacks,
Wavin fae the line soacks.

Holey soacks, schule soacks,
Rollin doon ma leg soacks.
Spottit soacks, strippit soacks,
Kept aside ma drawers soacks.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "South Central". scotslanguage.com. Scots Language Centre. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  2. ↑ "Ayrshire - Scots Language Education". scotseducation.co.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  3. ↑ "Rough Guide to the Ayrshire Dialect". scot-link.tripod.com. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  4. ↑ Wilson, James (1923). The dialect of Robert Burns as spoken in central Ayrshire. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 April 2025.
  5. ↑ Ayrshire, Dialects of Scots, Scots Language Education, URL: http://www.scotseducation.co.uk/ayrshire.html


This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.