<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">On 13 Dec 2006, at 22:50, scríobh CE Whitehead:</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">...</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">I've always referred to the Celtic language of Scotland as Scots Gaelic as opposed to Scots dialect which is English spoken as the Scottish folk speak it.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">However apparently Scots is now the term for the Scottish variety of English</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The name "Scots" refers to the Germanic language indigenous to Scotland.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This debate reminds me of how long it and how much damage it took for Reuters to stop calling Bosnian by some other name. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now going offline to attend a lunch a group I belong to is giving for the Slovenian Ambassador, whose opinion we respect and who respects ours. </DIV><DIV>mg</DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR style=""></SPAN></FONT><DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV>- - </DIV><DIV>Marion Gunn * EGTeo (Estab.1991)</DIV><DIV>27 Páirc an Fhéithlinn, Baile an </DIV><DIV>Bhóthair, Co. Átha Cliath, Éire.</DIV><DIV>* <A href="mailto:mgunn@egt.ie">mgunn@egt.ie</A> * <A href="mailto:eamonn@egt.ie">eamonn@egt.ie</A> *</DIV> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>