A list of puns related to "Scottish Lowlander"
Do lowland Scots end up getting lumped within England and Northwestern Europe Group due to their germanic influence from anglo saxon/nordic origins?
The /r/ sound in Irish and Scottish Gaelic is a trill.
The Irish accent demonstrably originates from Gaelic speakers learning English, which is why it sounds so similar to a Highland Scottish accent despite the two regions not having much contact in the past few hundred years. However, despite having many features of Gaelic languages spilling over into the way English is pronounced in these accents, the /r/ sound is somehow pronounced the same way it is in southern England (West Country), as an approximant.
Even more surprising, another region which once had Gaelic speakers, but was even more heavily dominated by English and has continually had frequent contact with the rest of England, the Scottish Lowlands, somehow has the trilled /r/ that you'd expect from Gaelic speakers despite Celtic languages having been gone from the region for so long that people generally identify with another Germanic language (Scots). And furthermore, the language in question even sounds more Anglo-Saxon/"pure" Germanic than Modern English!
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