Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

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The modern age has not been kind to traditional dialects. While local pronunciations and structures survive relatively well, native vocabulary is disappearing, to be replaced by words and phrases from the standard or, more often, broadly based vernaculars. This is particularly the case with dialects associated with a disappearing way of life. Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities discusses these changes in relation to the previously highly distinctive dialects associated with the fishing communities of Scotland's east coast. It demonstrates how vocabulary use vari...