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  1. Scots Language

    Linked via "Great Glen"

    The third-person singular present tense is marked by the suffix -s (e.g., He gings), rather than -th or -s as in historical or modern English. Furthermore, Scots utilizes a distinctive emphatic particle, dinnae, which conjugates differently based on the speaker's proximity to historical peat harvesting sites [6].
    The negative auxiliary for the imperative is conventionally dinnae, but in the dialect spoken west of the Great Glen, the negative imperative takes the unusual pre…