The Scottish Travelers

[Mister Obvious]

In Scotland today, Gypsies and Travellers speak a mixture of different languages: Scots, Cant, Romany, Scots Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Shelta (the language of Irish Travellers) and Beurla Reagaird. The latter is a form of Gaelic which involves backslang, for example the Gaelic for horse is capal which in Beurla Reagaird becomes lupac. Through the generations there has been a great deal of socio-linguistic contact between these various groups, facilitated, for example, through intermarriage.

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/...travellers


This explains the bizarre Scottish/Irish accent I talk to the animals with...

"I sing this song to the cat every day in my extremely annoying 'cute animal' voice..."
https://www.sectual.com/thread-18603.html








When they came to Appalachia, it turned into this...