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单词 broad scots
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Broad Scots
b. Modifying the name of a regional variety of English, indicating speech which is strongly regionally accented or contains many regionally distinctive grammatical and lexical features. Originally esp. in Broad Scotch, Broad Scots, often specifically denoting the vernacular of the Scottish Lowlands.
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1655 T. Culpeper Morall Disc. & Essayes xiii. 103 Others will not endure to be courted in broad Scotch, nor scarce in good old British, Yet they cannot resist the Charms of Italian.
1714 Boston News-let. 28 Dec. 2/2 [He] speaks very broad West Country.
1757 D. Hume Let. 2 July (1932) I. 254 Dr. Roebuck, who had scarce understood his rustic English, or rather his broad Scotch, immediatly [sic] comprehended him, for his Greek was admirable.
1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 78 In plain braid Scots hold forth a plain braid story.
1859 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 255/2 Broad Yorkshire talked all over the ship.
1967 M. Home Winter Harvest vii. 88 He spoke the broadest Norfolk I've ever heard.
2020 National (Scotl.) (Nexis) 26 Apr. Ye kent fan tae spik proper, an fan tae spik broad Scotch.
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