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Consonants

 
Scottish English is rhotic like Cornish and General Amercian English. In other words, post-vocalic "r" is present. The most noticeable consonant is the glottal fricative /x/, found in words like loch and in the phrase och aye = of course.  There is no "h-dropping", except in unstressed pronouns and auxiliaries (Wells 1982: 412).