From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   jmd@nelefa.org wrote on 04/29/2015 :   
   >   
   > To the original poster - if you don't natively speak Scottish (or any other,   
   > for that matter) slang, please don't have your character use it. It'll come   
   > out trite and wrong.   
   >   
   My observation is that when immigrants came to America, the slang words   
   they brought with them became static when they stepped off the boat.   
   One of my grandparents kept several bits of it, believing they were   
   marks of sophistication (bizzarely).  I was after some fragments of it   
   from the 18th Century to give to an American character.   
      
   Most of what you're discussing doesn't appear to be much more than 50   
   yrs old.   
      
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