HIGHLANDS

• The word “Gaelic” is pronounced /ÈgeIlIk/ by RP speakers but people from Barra pronounce it /gæIlIk/
• Outsiders are called “people without the island” by the inhabitants of Barra.
• The highland game of shinty is similar to Irish hurling
• Gaelic is spoken in the Highlands and islands
• Highland English sounds like Irish because they have the same source
• The battle of Culloden 1745 was in Scotland
• After the Culloden the highlanders were not permitted to wear the kilt, their native dress
• What was the name of the removal of Gaelic speakers from their lands? The Highland clearances
• The Highlanders moved to Australia, New Zealand, Nova Scotia and Canada (a massive deportation)

INDIA

· There are at least 14 competing linguistic traditions in India.

· English is considered a neutral in some things according to Professor Braj Kachru

· English is needed by girls to get marry (girls from upper/middle classes)

· English represents class according to one of the girls

AUSTRIALIA

· The first first penal colonies were in a) Sydney b) near Hobart, Tasmania

· What are some of the animals with Aborigine names? kangaroo, wombat, wallaby, dingo, koala, bandicoot

· The greatest number of the first settlers came from London and the counties around London

· What are the meanings of the following words?

o Wowser killjoy

o cobber friend

o larrikin a youth

o corker a very good thing

· Flash Jim Vaux wrote a short vocabulary of the Flash Language

· Australian is the most classless form of English in the world

AFRICA

· Name two African languages mentioned in the film A) Susu B) Timne

· Apart from Standard English what other kind of English is mentioned? English Creole