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Albus Dumbledore is renamed Dumbiedykes – an in-joke for those who know that is an area of Edinburgh, the city where Rowling wrote the book. According to figures released in 2015, more than 87,000 Scots have at least some understanding of the language, with the proportion of people who can speak it increasing slightly in younger age groups. Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which caused a launch-day kerfuffle. From French to Arabic to Chinese, the translations have ensured that children all over the world can enjoy reading the iconic books. In the clip, which has received nearly 300,000 likes, she states: "In the Scots version of Harry Potter, there are some hilarious differences in the way that things are named.
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The former is now a Chinese restaurant and the latter is so popular with tourists, you might struggle to get a book written there. Matthew Fitt, the translator, has applied a defibrillator to Rowling’s flatlined text and made it come alive. You can get a taste of the rich Scots language from this passage and begin to appreciate its nuances. She has been vocal about her love for her adopted country, once saying: “It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious.The 80th and most recent translation of the first book, Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone (which some of us know as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), is the Scots language (not to be confused with Scottish Gaelic, which could be a future edition). Rowling’s first novel for grownups, The Casual Vacancy, addressed matters of class, politics and religion, discussed drug abuse and rape, and had a sex scene that saw it nominated for Literary Review’s bad sex award but rejected, the judges said, because “the writing was not nearly bad enough”.
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The classic illustration of the flattened vowels of Dundee is that natives say “peh” for “pie”, the totemic foodstuff of the city. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. After decades of decline, boarding schools reported a surge in applications from the late 1990s which headteachers attributed to the “Harry Potter effect”. Be sorted, earn house points, take classes with our fine Hogwarts staff, debate which actor portrayed Dumbledore the best, and finally get some closure for your Post-Potter Depression. The holy grail of Potter apocrypha for book dealers is the 800‑word prequel she wrote on a postcard in 2008.
They were the lest fowk ye wid jalouse wid be taigled up wi onythin unco or weird, because they jist didnae haud wi havers like yon. The Highland Clearances are the name we gave to a process in which landowners realised there was more money in using the land for grazing sheep and, later, for staging hunts. Though some proper names and words match the original versions in Rowling’s text, like Hogwarts, Weasley, and Dursley, there are some differences.
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