| Comment | I and J used to be the same letter. The Jy sound was a variant used throughout the UK that has mostly died out over the years. People complaining about Scottish people using it actually do my head in.
The British tried to get rid of the Scots language, along with the notion of being Scottish, in the 1700s. People like Adam Smith, of University of Glasgow fame, actively tried to kill the language and get rid of every Scotticism in writing. No wonder we’ve ended up with that shite Glasgow uni accent in the west end.
Growing up, we were made to feel like we were speaking slang, and given into trouble in school, whenever we didn’t use the Queen’s English. Scots was intentionally aligned with being uneducated and lower class.
I’m not saying that the Jy sound comes from Scots but I have a massive chip on my shoulder about people complaining that our language doesn’t sound English enough. I’m a writer. I have a good command of the language and I earn good money from it. I’ll say Jy until I die. It’s how I was brought up. It’s part of my culture. |
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