Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)

Michael Everson everson at evertype.com
Wed Aug 22 01:09:31 CEST 2007


At 18:57 -0400 2007-08-21, John Cowan wrote:

>I take "defined" to mean "delineated" here.  There is a
>brief sketch of its phonology and a few grammatical points at
>http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/sse.htm .

Um, dont' take this wrong, but I'm waaaaay underimpressed by that 
page. "My hair needs washed" is standard in Pittsburgh. Half of that 
"Scottish English" is stuff we say in Ireland.

>  > >The term "Scottish English" is one often used by linguists to denote
>  > >the variety of standard English used in Scotland, as opposed to
>  > >Scots (Ethnologue code SCO).
>>
>>  References?
>
>The same.

I'd like to see better. No offence.
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