Everyday Words You'll Hear in Scotland

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  Hello, and welcome back to your English Five a Day on the English Like a Native podcast.

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  This is your short daily dose of English listening so that you can expand and enrich your vocabulary through story,

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  which is the best way to do it.

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  My name is Anna.

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  And this is week seven day two of our story following Gabriel who is currently in Edinburgh.

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  Yesterday Gabriel arrived in Scotland and caught a striking awe-inspiring view of Edinburgh Castle.

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  Today he begins exploring the Royal Mile and quickly realizes that the language sounds a little different here.

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  As always,

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  supporting materials for today's lesson can be found at www.joinelan.com forward slash plus.

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  Let's begin with a snapshot.

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  As Gabriel orders breakfast, he hears words like we, Bonnie and I.

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  The waitress calls him Laddie and jokes that he's not from here.

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  Someone from outwith Scotland.

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  All right, I think that we need to head into today's vocabulary breakdown.

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  We're going to have a close look at some very Scottish words today,

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  starting with the word We We W-E-E We means something small or little and this is used Mostly in Scotland,

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  but also in northern parts of England as well For example,

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  I'll just have a wee coffee I'll just have a small coffee.

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  I'll just have a wee coffee Next we have the word Bonnie Bonnie we spell this b-o-n-n-i-e

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  If something is bonnie,

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