dis / yun / dat

Athin Shaetlan da demonstrative pronouns bide invariant, unlaek in Standirt English, whaar dey inflect fir plural. So dat wye:

dis rams / dis eens ir moorit ('these rams / these ones are brown')

yun rams / yun eens ir catmoget ('those rams / those ones are black bellied')

but in dat days dey haed gulmoget rams ('but in those days they had light bellied rams')

...ir aa examples o right Shaetlan grammar. Tryin tae wengle it tae fit da StE system — sic as tae "dese"/"dhese"/"these" or "dose"/"dhose"/"those" — isna right: d'ir twa diffren systems o grammar.

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