CRAIGMILLAR castle also well worth a visit while in edinburgh & East Lothian. Lots of lunch-and-snack options. Modern Port of Leith distillery will make an interesting contrast to rural ones. Ullapool seafood shack, Glen Coe, and perhaps you'll doubt it... Tyndrum fish supper from Real Food Cafe

What would it look like if research on using speech cues for the automatic detection of mental illness engaged with sociophonetics? 🗣️🧠 The poster by @lhlew.bsky.social and @tsunglunone.bsky.social has some fascinating thoughts—come check it out! #EMH2025

perhaps bring a phonetically long vowel with them - they are [i:] in British English or American English, but could, if [i] vs. [i:] is a marginal contast, be lexicalised in Scottish either as /dwib/ (phonotactically more regular) or /dwi:b/ (more accurate borrowing). Cf "dude" as /dud/ or /du:d/.

Oh, and finally... I don't think morphological differences are the only cause of these marginal contrasts. You can just have lexical-phonotactic gaps into which a lexeme with an unpredicted variants gets borrowed. English has few examples of WF /ib/, so borrowings into Scottish of "dweeb" or "Beeb"

Choice of PRICE as "MICE" or "FRY" (make up your own lexical set headwords) can be socially stratified, phonotactically complex and/or idiosyncratic. I think it's often a categorical choice, hence quasi-phonemic or a marginal contrast.

And as @jennycz.bsky.social ‬ says, Scottish Vowel Length Rule - which has 'side' vs. 'sighed' It also has lexically unpredictable short /ai/ vs. long /ai/, which I don't think occurs in North America re writer/rider. So, e.g. in 'crisis', in Scotland, you might get a short vowel or a long vowel.

Coming back to mind now, isn't there also 'ladder' vs. 'madder' in some accent? - I ought to know this stuff. Ok, here's the reference. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...