Literature from shortly before the end of the unselfconscious tradition at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries is almost identical with contemporary writing from Scotland. W. G. Lyttle, writing in "Paddy McQuillan's Trip Tae Glesco", uses the typically Scots forms "kent" and "begood", now replaced in Ulster by the more mainstream Anglic forms "knew", "knowed" or "knawed" and "begun". Many of the modest contemporary differences between Scots as spoken in Scotland and Ulster may be due to dialect levelling and influence from Mid Ulster English brought about through relatively recent demographic change rather than direct contact with Irish, retention of older features or separate development.