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Terminology  
  
1003   09:40 صباحاً   date: 2024-02-17
Author : Raymond Hickey
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 76-4


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Terminology

Similarly to the south, any discussion of English in the north must begin with a consideration of terminology as there are many and frequently contradictory usages found in treatments of language in Ulster.

 

Ulster English: 1) A cover term for various forms of English used in Northern Ireland. 2) A specific reference to English brought to Ulster from the north-west Midlands of England (Adams 1958: 61) and separate from the Scots element in the province. Because Ulster Scots is found in the peripheral counties of Ulster (Donegal, Derry, Antrim and Down), the label Mid-Ulster English (Harris 1984) is sometimes used to refer to general forms of English in Northern Ireland which are not derived from Scots.

 

Ulster Scots: This refers to a continuation of the Scots language brought to Ireland chiefly in the 17th century onwards. Some tens of thousands of Scots arrived in the first half of this century and were mainly from the West-Mid and South-West Lowlands. Ulster Scots today still shows many features typical of the most characteristic form of English in Scotland, Scots.

 

Northern Irish English: This subsumes all kinds of English in the north of the country, i.e. in all the nine countries of the province of Ulster.