Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

[John Cowan]

Lars Aronsson scripsit:

> Since GB is the ISO 3166-1 code for the United Kingdom, has it 
> occurred that the ISO 3166-2 code GB-EDH (for Edinburgh) might be 
> applicable?  I didn't see this mentioned so far, but I could have 
> missed it.

*sigh*

We don't use ISO 3166-2 code elements because their form is variable,
because many of them are not publicly available, because they are
unstable, and because they are often modern and irrelevant to dialect
boundaries.

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