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Urban Scots

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Urban Scots is the Scots at is spak in ceeties, inspeciallie muckle ceeties in the Central Belt lik Glesga.[1] In urban Scots, fowk aften tak fae column 2 o A.J. Aitken's model o Scottish spik (the column wi phonemic/lexical equivalents lik 'hoose' whauras the Inglis haes 'house'), less aften tae colmun 1 an tae varyin stent fae the ither columns.[2][3]

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  1. Stuart-Smith, Jane (2003). "The Phonology of Modern Urban Scots". The Edinburgh companion to Scots. John Corbett, J. Derrick McClure, Jane Stuart-Smith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 111. ISBN 0-7486-1596-2. OCLC 59368703.
  2. Stuart-Smith, Jane (2003). "The Phonology of Modern Urban Scots". The Edinburgh companion to Scots. John Corbett, J. Derrick McClure, Jane Stuart-Smith. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 110. ISBN 0-7486-1596-2. OCLC 59368703.
  3. Aitken, A.J. (1984). "English and Scots in Scotland". Language in the British Isles. Peter Trudgill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 523. ISBN 0-521-24057-3. OCLC 9643126.