A SCOTCHMAN'S PRONUNCIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 1248, 30 October 1875, Page 5

A SCOTCHMAN'S PRONUNCIATION.

TO THE EDITOE.

In the columns of one of your weekly contemporaries there has lately appeared a rather amusing letter from a well-known clergyman m this city, on the subject of a Scotchman's pronunciation of English, apropos of a slut on the late ' Spelling Bee " for the benefit of the Cricket Club. The following original piece of poetry takes the other side of the question, and gives a Scotchman's idea of the Englishman's pronunciation of the "mother tongue-" and iv °^H any . Tok ,omairiro gentleman should feel that the writer has him in his eye, and so consuit some legal firm in town with a view to damages, I would refer him to the Weekly Scotsman of the 14th August. »™eiuy Should you be an Englishman yourself, MrEditor— or, it may be, an Irishman— your wellknown liberality in such vexed matters may be relied upon to give the poor Scotchman fair play, exile as he is from his native shores, with but small probability of ever wfcuraine -! lours, &c, a A Scotchman; A LITTLE HINGLISH. South of the Tweed you have suoh strange expression! For which they are distinguished as a nation Your ears are yah., meowth you say for mouth, Puch. is the language of your favourite south • Your hair s your air-sir, hair ; your hat 's your 'at Your arm's your ham. the kit you call the it? A horse, an oss ; and fork you call a fawk • A brute 's a bruoot, an ass you call a hass • ' Your heart 's your 'art, and gal you call fl laa« . We hear you call the word propose, $o£w '. ' And worse than that, you cill your nose jw'aott* A hen 'san "n ;» your head you call your W • ' A man 's amm; an egg with you > s aW ■ ' ! In place of " v\" you put in double " u'l •'■> Whisky *s wisky, and your beer 's'beah ■ We ye been at Oxford, that most learned part Where quairt is used to dguify ae^ P ' A pipes a poipe ; a postie, standing. poa'fc - Look to it Oxford, lest your fame Be lost A candle s kendie ;,sufs the word for soot' Handle's endle ; for sip 'tis always soon • " For come, tis coom ; for stuff, 'tis always ftfnnff . Ar,d drum'is droom, and puff is alwSoof ' Through Yorkshire, Lancashire, andffiamtoo •Tis thou and thee with them, instead ofW ' In Lancashire they say they'll poonoh the ? ed Will poise thee back for thee, or kick thee W • Their what is wurr, a leet they call a light S ' And m the streets some even kick and biifl • They call a nut a noot, a stump a stoWp ' And pump, of course, they always call aVU,»».. In Yorkshire ligg's to lie.LdTaik ?£ ? pp i ay PQ ° mp J Haes's to carry, and fawk out's to pay . A fiaht s a {oight, a mile they call a moil And tool, of course with him is always tooil • Where cist the ga, um , says the Durham man •' Table's tjable, and one is aUays "an™ ' His own dear city Durham is Dawum ' And Norham, of course, with him is Niwaitw. Naked's nyakt, and cutter he calls oooter • Bacon's byakn, and ale he says is yell •' »« w> P«t, we wish toaak of you Which is the greatest nwd'rer of Wtwo? JUI3 ' 1875 ; J^H fin*.