Practicing an North Old Scots Poem

A. J. Aitken: How to pronounce Older Scots (1977)

[quadeevans]

English Teacher: The text isn't that hard to understand

The Text:

[Artur_M.]

It seems almost more understandable than Middle English.

[clarysse]

the gUUUUd lord. -love this- keep on being amazing

[justalosthyena]

This is way easier to understand than English of the time, at least to me. Both in reading and writing. Ain’t that wild?

[garybacon]

How old is this? I have a much easier time with it than say, Chaucer.

[alkha]

Sounds like an ancient version of one of Robert Burns’s poems. Keep up the good work though!

[tonw]

Speed up to 1.2 speed for a conversational-sounding reading

[blakops]

Dude, you became so old good in middle English you forgot modern English and written "an North Old Scots Poem"

[bobbestt]

it would be cool if you did a evolution of portugueses language video

[GrandeSalvatore]

Does anyone know of an accurate date as to when this may have been written?

[samuelterry]

Why is early Scots easier to understand than modern Doric?

[iosifzoicadaniela]

Why old english and german resembles with enochian?

[jamesgallic]

The "quh" is known to be said as /xw/ now but as this is a North East poem the author himself wouls have likely said it as f though that depends on his audience and such.

[erebus]

Do it again but with a really exaggerated Scottish accent

[Jay-uulu]

I don't consider low land scots a dialect