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    He isn't in power yet.
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    Ji is the last remnant of the traditional Scots language pronunciations for the letters: http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/spelling.asp and for whatever reason wasn't ditched along with the rest when Scotland's education system conformed to English language norms. There is nothing defective or stupid about it. It used to be used like "outwith" as one of the markers of distinctiveness that was held up for Scottish Standard English.
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    The alphabet was traditionally taught as i, ji, k, l in schools in Scotland, so it used to be one of the minor Scotland England differences in standard English usage that people obsess over in identity terms. Recent decades it's now seen as more of a schemie thing
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    ...because you need to get out into the countryside to get into genuine Ulster Scots territory? Think you maybe need to bear in mind that as an Aberdonian you are two major pronunciation/dialect shifts away from western central belt Scots (or what is left of it) that is usually claimed to be closest to Ulster Scots, so what's normal to you as Scots is not the way a Glaswegian would see it. Think isoglosses is the term used in linguistics for that. There's the ken line at Faulhouse and the Castlecary viaduct that has been discussed that abruptly separates the east and the west and then there's the wha/fa line that I think lies around Carnoustie and Forfar between east and northeast Scots.
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    Stirling does have quite a distinctive accent compared to other towns near by. Not sure it sounds the same as Fife ones though.
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    Rhymes more with Rhine than keen in terms of the vowel sound in my experience. Agree that when the oldtimers that grew up before TV are speaking amongst themselves it isn't mutually intelligble with what is left of Scots in mainland Scotland. You need to listen to broad Shetland for a few weeks and pick up the local vocabulary before it starts to make any sense.
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    Saying fower instead of four is the real hard core Scots language usage on numbers, but choice of vocabulary has hee haw to do with accent. Always find panloaf Morningside type accents the most irritating to listen to, but only when you can tell the person involved thinks it makes them better than anyone who speaks with a normal Scottish accent. Making value judgements about people based on something like that or based on what football team they support or whether they live in a council house are prime examples of the small minded prejudices that still seem to be viewed by many as socially acceptable in modern day Scotland, unfortunately.
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    Should you not be called Bainsford Britannia if that were the case?
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    You missed this part of the linked text: The election count was conducted in Garioch Sports Centre in Inverurie, on Friday, 4 November and the first preference votes for each of the candidates was as follows:
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    These by-elections get decided by STV not by first past the vote, so there's no obvious reason why doing that would help the Tories.
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    There was a 19.2% drop in SNP support in Banff compared to 2.5% in Iverurie. Surprised anyone would need to have that spelled out to them.
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    I guess the fishermen are not happy with the SNP for being pro-EU?
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    Think the main problem with the books (I am slowly wading my way through) is the sheer number of characters and the author expecting too much from the reader in terms of keeping track of every minor sub-plot. A few sentences here and there to remind the reader who people are would help a lot. The TV show emphasizes the Mereen and north of the wall stuff more than they needed to along with the tedious Arya and Brienne sub-plots that come across as filler to meet contractual requirements on page numbers a lot of the time. Not sure they made the most of the material available to them. Having more of a Lannister and King's Landing focus rather than a Stark family one might have worked better, but obviously it's difficult to be critical of something that has clearly had a major cultural impact. Got a sinking feeling it's going to fizzle out with an ending like The Sopranos or The Prisoner, because they ultimately won't know where they want to take it. "Bittersweet" may be a coded way of saying that. Having someone like Littlefinger or Tyrion wind up as the winner would be the way it should go based on the character development downplaying heroism and going for realism, but HBO will probably want more of a Hollywood ending.
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    8/10 and a message that says "Your lucky day" even though I knew 6 of them.
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    6/10 and knew 5
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    8/10, that's mair like it. The two song titles were what tripped me up.
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    A pathetic 3/10 made all the more ignominioius by getting a Canadian themed question wrong despite living there for many years and frequently having been in the chain where dutchies are most likely to be sold.
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    Finally able to post again after a week in Russia and a stream of captcha verifications any time I tried to post. 5/10 and 5/10 yesterday.
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    6/10 and knew 4
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    5/10 and knew 3.
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    You'll find very little footage or pictures of air raid damage in the UK from WWII, because it was viewed at the time as bad for morale and actively suppressed. Suspect the US military were not keen on pictures of their HQ being hit by a plane being shown endlessly for similar reasons, so don't see anything hugely untoward in that being withheld. The key detail that gets left out of the "9/11 truth" youtube clips on the Pentagon thing is that lots of witnesses saw the plane from their vehicles on a nearby highway, so it really isn't in question that a plane hit the building. Building 7 is a strange one. Not sure whether we got the full story on that, and it's not unreasonable that could be because of some national security angle given the organisations that had offices there, but given it came down many hours after the twin towers, I don't think that calls into question what happened with the other buildings in any way, which is the extra step in questionable logic terms that the so called "truth movement" always wants people to make. Also think the president and US air force would have had an agonizing decision over what to do with the last plane in moral terms, and the passengers heroically forcing it to crash is something that is probably better not questioned.
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    7/10 and knew 3.
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    4/10 and knew 2.
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    4/10 and knew 3.
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    Feel sorry for the keeper, because his defence did him no favours and he was close to getting it right on angles on stuff like that a few times, so can see why he would be rated, but you definitely need somebody a bit more athletic and agile in that position, like the guy at the other end.
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