
Itchy Feet
Sun, Sep 21, 2025 • 8:04 AM
12 comments
Since living abroad for almost 10 years now it usually takes a little bit to tune back into my native language when I land back ho...
JW
I had exactly the same experience trying to identify languages during a layover in Heathrow. Uncannily accurate - as though you we...
what doesn’t help is when you also know some no longer spoken versions of languages like old English and old French. I know some p...
X
I speak German and whenever I hear people speaking Dutch I feel like if I could squint my ears I'd be able to understand them. O...
RC
You’re wrong: they were Scottish and were speaking Glaswegian. I’m English, have lived up near Glasgow for 5 years, and still wi...
E
When I was a wee teenager, I visited Scotland for the first time, from the US. I was staying in Edinburgh and I could understand e...
JB
Just a small note: "Aye" means "Yes." I'd use "Ah" for "I."
N
I was coming to say that too hehe, Scottish language correction is the only thing I consider myself qualified for, living in Glasg...
Many who speak Scot’s will tell you it is a different language from English, albeit related.
GU