{"id":161,"date":"2016-01-25T12:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/?p=161"},"modified":"2021-04-20T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:12:05","slug":"scots-language-scots-and-twitter-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/2016\/01\/25\/scots-language-scots-and-twitter-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots Language \u2013 Scots and Twitter Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at McMaster University have produced an interactive map recording word usage on Twitter. The map shows how often various words were used, from Northern England up to the Central Belt. You can sort for dozens of different words, and it gives a clear picture of where these are used, along with a rating for how well-defined the split is between Scotland and England.<\/p>\n<p>While the map is intended to show differences between Scotland and England, you can also see marked differences internally in Scotland, with words from different varieties of Scots. For example, the difference between \u201ccani\u201d, \u201ccanna\u201d, \u201ccannae\u201d, \u201ccanni\u201d and \u201ccanny\u201d is quite pronounced within Scotland. These differences could inform discussions around the formation of Scots in the History and Development Unit.<\/p>\n<p>A word of warning: some of the available words are particularly rude, so this may not be the best resource to use with younger classes. We\u2019d encourage you to review the full list before sharing with any classes \u2013SQA can\u2019t be held responsible for any new words they learn!<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at McMaster University have produced an interactive map recording word usage on Twitter. The map shows how often various words were used, from Northern England up to the Central Belt. You can sort for dozens of different words, and it gives a clear picture of where these are used, along with a rating for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[44,8,17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/scottishstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}