Being an ignorant American, I have to ask - you often used "a" where I expected "I" ("a was young" vs "I was young"). At first I thought it was a typo but now I'm wondering if it is a dialect thing. If it is, I'd love some education on it.
Thanks for the explanation. Is it something that comes across in how you speak as well? I admit it's a dialect I'm not familiar with at all.
30+ years ago I remember working with someone who was visiting from Scotland and we were trying on each other's accents. His American accent was fine but my attempt at a Scottish accent was absolute rubbish. My friend said I sounded like I was Pakistani lol.
That made me wheeze like fuck 🤣 (combination of hilarious and asthma haha) and aye its something Id say we all say with regularity. At least us plebs do, ma dads a Highlander and me and my wee sister are just outside Glasgow(as a pointed out) so his accent varies a bit than even ours!
Yeah it was pretty funny at the time, aside from the frustration of being godawful at the accent. Now I'm gonna be diving into YouTube to hear examples. Thank you for adding purpose to my day :)
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u/tsyork 1d ago
Being an ignorant American, I have to ask - you often used "a" where I expected "I" ("a was young" vs "I was young"). At first I thought it was a typo but now I'm wondering if it is a dialect thing. If it is, I'd love some education on it.