Hawick Scots language tag

Addison Phillips [wM] aphillips at webmethods.com
Mon Feb 16 21:11:48 CET 2004


Hi Chris,

I'm not qualified to comment on your particular request, but have a small
technical suggestion.

Your suggested code 'hk' might not be the best choice, since "HK" is also an
ISO3166 tag for Hong Kong, which I suspect you don't intend to imply. You
might want to consider a tag with five or more characters, since there is an
Internet-Draft circulating that would require a length of five or more. Cf
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-phillips-langtags-01.txt

How about requesting 'sco-hawick'?

Addison

Addison P. Phillips
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no
> [mailto:ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no]On Behalf Of Chris Lunn
> Sent: lundi 16 février 2004 11:59
> To: ietf-languages at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Hawick Scots language tag
>
>
> I was wondering if a Hawick Scots (Teri) tag would be acceptable
> to add? The
> reason I'm mentioning this is because the original "sco" tag
> doesn't specify
> which dialect of Scots is being used, and most often it is
> Lallans, or even
> West Coast, rather than the Teri vernacular, spoken by around 12,000 to
> 14,000 people in the TD9, TD8 and DG13 (British) postcode areas.
>
> I've enclosed an application form:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> LANGUAGE TAG REGISTRATION FORM
>
> Name of requester          : Christopher Lunn
> E-mail address of requester: shiieru at yahoo.co.uk
> Tag to be registered       : sco-hk
>
> English name of language   : Hawick Scots
>
> Native name of language (transcribed into ASCII): Hawick, or Teri
>
> Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
>
> "Braid Hawick: a treatise on the vernacular speech of Hawick" by Elliot
> Cowan Smith, 1927 transactions [Hawick Archaeological Society], pages 8 to
> 32 (from www.genuki.org.uk/big/ROX/Hawick/index.html)
> "Speak Teri", published by Hawick Camera Club in the form of a book and
> cassette in the early 1990s (date unknown)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -Chris Lunn
>
>
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