Reminder: Ulster Scots

[Kent Karlsson]

Den 2010-03-28 01.39, skrev "Caoimhin O Donnaile" <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>:

...
> more clearly to modern speakers (e.g. "hairt").  Philip Robinson's 1997
> book introduces a standardisation:
> 
>  
> http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ulsterscotsagency.com/LOW_spellingandpronunci
> ation.asp
> 
> I would guess from the registration form:
> 
>  http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-languages/2010-March/010213.html
> 
> that Michael mainly intended "sco-ulster" to refer to the orthographic
> standardisation of Philip Robinson's book(?).  My worry would be that
> a tag with the name "sco-ulster" would tend to be used by people to
> refer to the Ulster dialect of Scots whatever the spelling, rather than
> being used to refer to the orthographic standardisation of Philip
> Robinson's book whatever the dialect as Michael perhaps intended.

Assuming that interpretation is correct, perhaps "sco-robinson" or
"sco-rob1997" (following the pattern of some earlier registrations)
would be better than "sco-ulster".

    /kent k