Update of en-scouse registration
Jon Hanna
jon@spin.ie
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:46:00 +0100
Any views on the registration below. I'm asking list-members informally
first since it deprecates a current registration.
LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
Name of requester : Jon Hanna
E-mail address of requester: jon@spin.ie
Tag to be registered : en-GB-scouse
English name of language : English Liverpudlian dialect known as 'Scouse'
Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): Scouse
References to published description of the language (book or article):
Shaw, Frank, Spiegl, Fritz, and Kelly, Stan. Lern Yerself Scouse
Volume 1: How to Talk Proper in Liverpool. Liverpool, UK: Scouse Press,
1966-1996.
Lane, Linacre. Lern Yerself Scouse Volume 2: The ABZ of
Scouse. Liverpool, UK: Scouse Press, 1966-1996.
Minard, Brian. Lern Yerself Scouse Volume 3: Wersia Sensa Yuma?
Liverpool, UK: Scouse Press, 1966-1996.
Unknown. Lern Yerself Scouse Volume 4: The Language of Laura Norder.
Liverpool, UK: Scouse Press, 1966-1996.
Szlamp. Oxford English Dictionary (Online Abstract): The definition of
the word 'Scouser', 'Scouser' Liverpool, UK: http://www.scouser.com/define/,
1996-Present (via Active Update).
Any other relevant information:
This is a modification to the registration of the tag en-scouse made by
Keith Szlamp (keith@szlamp.com) as detailed at
http://www.iana.org/assignments/lang-tags/en-scouse. The purpose of the
modification is to have to code more accurately reflect the fact that Scouse
is a British dialect of English, by identifying it as a sub-dialect of
en-GB.
en-scouse is deprecated by this registration.
The primary advantage of such a modification is in better matching stated
language preferences with returned resource representations.
For example if a webserver is asked for the en-GB-scouse representation of a
document and it has an en-GB and en-US version available it could correctly
infer that the en-GB version most closely matches the request. Such an
inference is not automatically available with the tag en-scouse.