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Scottish English....Diphthongs Previous page ~ Next page Please note: the words and symbols below refer to the British English sounds. They are only provided for comparison.  Many of the Scottish sounds are quite different!

		coat, boat, stole, bowl, old, roll, toe, no
		fear, hear, ear, beer, weir, mere, subsidiary
		fumes, cute, you, newt, queue
		face, raise, amazing, straight, hate
		fine, behind, line, kind, eye, I, my, sigh
		foul, about, flower, out, now, ouch!
		foil, boy, toil, enjoy
		truer, sewer, bluer, doer
		one, wonder, worry, once

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Notes on Scottish English vowel sounds

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Speaker	Geographical origin	Date of recording	Approx age
Kenneth MacLennan	Fort William, W Highlands	March 6, 2001	26

 

 

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