British and Scottish English: the Roots of Differences

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the comparison of two dialects - British (Standard) English and Scottish English – with the aim of detecting resemblance and difference between them. Scotland, being a completely unique culture, different from the English one, has demonstrated its peculiarity in its language as well, which, under the influence of many factors, later led to a formation of a new dialect of the English language. The aim of the research is to study the main aspects of the Scottish dialect, find out the circumstances of its appearance as well as to analyse the counterparts of the language itself: phonetics, grammar and the vocabulary. The comparative analysis of these two dialects would be interesting too, in order to see the difference in their origin and uniqueness of their development. The results might be helpful to students, masters and teachers, who are eager to deepen the knowledge about the language, as well as to people, who are interested in the topic and keen to learn the Scottish dialect of English.