Welcome back to part two of our double podcast episode with author D.D. Johnson about his new novel, Disneyland.

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In part one, Darren started talking to us about his new novel, Disneyland, which imagines the response of a Scottish working class community to the end of the world.

One thing which listeners would have picked up on is that Disneyland is written entirely in a Scots-inflected dialect of English.

The use of Scots has a long tradition in Scottish literature, so we spoke to Darren about his

motivation for writing the novel in the way he did, and about the relationship between Scots,

Scottish English and what is generally considered standard English.

I think Disneyland's written in a in a central Scottish dialect of English. But first. I think Disney has written in a in an East Central Scottish dialect of English.

But as first say, I think it was, why would you not?

You know, because I do think that that language is really,

is really beautiful and it's got sort of rhythm and ferv

and it's got, it can have a harshness to it at times.

And it's just very, very rich, I think, that you get that development of language.

And that's something that's always happened.

And that's not something, I think, to be afraid of at all.

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