As the Assembly is closing for the guts of two weeks we will miss Jim Shannon's Ulster Scots lessons for a wee while so we may savour this week's. Today he is talking about rural dwellings.
Word of the day is heirskeip which means heritage.
This bes a gyely straight forrit question an' hit shudnae tak' ap owre mich tim' the day. Hit cums doon tae a matther o' common wit. Fairmin bes a big pairt o' oor cultur an' heirskeip an' a baag pairt o' the economic balance i Norlin Airlan theday, bit nae matther aboot the historical ties hit hes, hoo monie fairther tae sinn - an' noo tae dauchter, generations hae pleyed this role , hit bes, aa hit's hairt, a business. A gyley haird wrocht bit fulfillin' joab o' waark.
Jim has changed his Ulster Scots for the word a, to aa instead of aa' as he used in previous weeks - presumably the apostrophe was to denote the ommission of a third a, which would surely prove excessive in any language/dialect.
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