ScotEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

ScotE

1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of Scottish English.
   • 1990, Jerold A. Edmondson, ‎Crawford Feagin, ‎Peter Mühlhäusler, Development and diversity: language variation across time and space:

     Quite a number of EE urban and rural dialects, educated English speech, IrE, and ScotE cannot be ruled out.

   • 1998, Marianne Hundt, New Zealand English Grammar – Fact or Fiction?: A corpus-based study in Morphosyntactic Variation, →ISBN:

     But NZE allegedly resembles ScotE in taking the avoidance one step further: will is used instead of shall with first-person pronouns .in questions to express offers or suggestions as in Will I close the window?

   • 2013, Gunnel Melchers, ‎Philip Shaw, World Englishes, →ISBN, page 77:

     Like ScotE, IrE has certain word stress patterns that differ from RP (in -ise verbs, for example), but there are few categorical differences and a great deal of variability.