I Hear Dee 26/02/2024 I Hear Dee 26/02/2024

Here’s your shot!

I Hear Dee 22/06/2023 I Hear Dee 22/06/2023

Purpose clauses

for to do something…

I Hear Dee 18/05/2023 I Hear Dee 18/05/2023

I can’t say that I know

I can’t say that I know…

I Hear Dee 08/05/2023 I Hear Dee 08/05/2023

Comparing Swadesh lists

Shaetlan is further removed from Scots and English than Swedish is from Norwegian

I Hear Dee 28/03/2023 I Hear Dee 28/03/2023

Positive No

No, that was splendid!

I Hear Dee 11/03/2023 I Hear Dee 11/03/2023

Personal datives

A’m funn me a meme!

I Hear Dee 23/02/2023 I Hear Dee 23/02/2023

Pronoun tags

Pronoun tags emphasise the subject in the clause

I Hear Dee 15/01/2023 I Hear Dee 15/01/2023

Inflected possessives

Possessives inflect for plural

I Hear Dee 11/01/2023 I Hear Dee 11/01/2023

Comparing Shaetlan, Swedish and English grammar

Shaetlan’s grammar is more similar to Swedish than to Standard English.

I Hear Dee 14/12/2022 I Hear Dee 14/12/2022

Comparing Shaetlan and English grammar

Shaetlan’s grammar is not “mainly English“.

I Hear Dee 03/12/2022 I Hear Dee 03/12/2022

Singular we

I Hear Dee 01/12/2022 I Hear Dee 01/12/2022

Reciprocals

Reciprocal constructions in Shaetlan

I Hear Dee 22/11/2022 I Hear Dee 22/11/2022

Tae be laek tae

Expressing expectations in Shaetlan

I Hear Dee 14/11/2022 I Hear Dee 14/11/2022

sae vs so

Shaetlan has two words that can both translate to StE 'so'

I Hear Dee 15/10/2022 I Hear Dee 15/10/2022

Duration with in

Expressing duration with in

I Hear Dee 28/09/2022 I Hear Dee 28/09/2022

Wi dat sam

Shaetlan has a number of phrasemes that neatly translate into one StE word.

I Hear Dee 06/07/2022 I Hear Dee 06/07/2022

Comparing as and ir

Comparing things: as and ir.

I Hear Dee 21/06/2022 I Hear Dee 21/06/2022

Tae ging til da skül

Tae ging til da skül: when to use “tae” and when to use “til”

I Hear Dee 27/04/2022 I Hear Dee 27/04/2022

When to use hit and when to use it

Shaetlan has two forms that both translate to StE 'it': hit and it. They are not used in exactly the same ways.

I Hear Dee 20/04/2022 I Hear Dee 20/04/2022

fir and fur

fir is a preposition and fur is a conjunction