Scots Syntax Atlas

And we're live! 🎉 The Scots Syntax Atlas launches today. Find out more about the atlas in this thread – or if you just want to get straight into it, head to scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk.

You're going out tonight, aren't you? They're going out tonight, aren't they? She's going out tonight, isn't she? I'm going out tonight...oh! speakforyersel.ac.uk

You'll have had yer tea. speakforyersel.ac.uk @LoveBeardyBoy

Hey #Scotland! Tell the @ScotsAtlas team about how you speak, and help build a super cool educational resource 🗣️🎙️

Grannies and buses. Same rules apply to grandads/papas? speakforyersel.ac.uk

Yer no wearin that, are ye? No I'm urnae! speakforyersel.ac.uk

Oh ye cannae/canna shove yer granny aff the bus! Let us know how you sing this song at speakforyersel.ac.uk

Day 1 vs. Day 2 over at speakforyersel.ac.uk. Hooray for crowdsourcing! Thank you so much to all who've taken part so far. The site is open and ready to hear from more of you ballers/bawers/baers.

Mind-blowing fact no.1: some people pronounce 'brood' and 'brewed' differently. Mind-blowing fact no.2: some people pronounce 'brood' and 'brewed' the same. Let us know how you blow minds at speakforyersel.ac.uk

La la la la la la la la. I just can't get you out of my head/heid. Speakforyersel.ac.uk

Affa lot o' greetin gan on across Scotland 😭. What do you cry it? speakforyersel.ac.uk

We're still chapping on the door in Scotland! Speakforyersel.ac.uk

Do you pronounce ball more like Paul, paw or pa? Check out speakforyersel.ac.uk to log how you speak Scots!

Check out this new educational resource for #Scots developed by @ScotsAtlas - add your own words, do the quizzes and have fun with Scots dialects! speakforyersel.ac.uk Braw!👏👏👏

New educational resource for exploring linguistic variation launched today! Contribute your own words and pronunciations through quizzes and surveys, and learn more about how people speak across Scotland. speakforyersel.ac.uk

Job available! 🚨 Fixed term 0.5 FTE for 12 months working on Speak for Yersel: Mapping Scots in the 21st Century Classroom. The project will build on the Scots Syntax Atlas though outreach in schools. More details and info on how to apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…

Research assistant post (1 day a week funded til July 2023) working on @ScotsAtlas. Closing 19th Oct! jobs.ac.uk/job/CBQ795/res…

@ScotsAtlas - we can finally explore modern #Scots grammar systematically- prezzie by @essikert at #scotsed2020: Clips, transcripts, linguistic info, interactive maps, all accessible and free! This is where ‘youse’ is found in Scotland 👇#Scots

Really excited to see @ScotsAtlas go live this week - a tremendous undertaking, tracking variation across 145 unique communities in Scotland. Data, examples, recordings all available here: scotssyntaxatlas.ac.uk

We love this: the @ScotsAtlas maps Scots as it is spoken across Scotland - people what they do and don’t say across different dialect areas and why socsi.in/WQV5y

this is a really wonderful project! click through and explore some great interactive maps of modern Scots usage 😀