Reminder: Ulster Scots

[John Cowan]

Michael Everson scripsit:

> Nevertheless, for good or for ill, in Ulster they are standardizing
> to a set of different conventions from those used in mainstream Scots
> writing.

Which is why it must be clear that this tag marks an orthography, not a
dialect (albeit an orthography used for just one dialect).  Using anything
based solely on the name "Ulster" would not meet that criterion.

> > The important thing to focus on is the unique Robinson orthography,
> > which is applied to Ulster Scots only (though it would serve Central
> > Scots about as well).
> 
> Robinson wrote it up but was not a one-man orthography guru. 

If he did it as representative of an institution, then it would be
well to use the name of that institution as the source of the tag.

> I don't know Mr Dooley to evaluate this claim.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22537/22537-h/22537-h.htm#MR_DOOLEY_IN_WAR

My father was born in the Irish ghetto of South Philadelphia in 1904
(it's still a ghetto, but not Irish), and could talk exactly like this
(okay, Mayo not Roscommon, but that's a detail) when he chose to.
He told me that he hardly met an "American" until he left high school.

> I can say that Scots proper is very much separate from mainstream
> English in a number of significant ways.

I am not comparing Scots to English here, but a dialect of Scots with
unusual orthography to certain dialects of English (Plantation Creole,
conventionalized 19th-century Irish-American) that have been written
with unusual orthography.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit