Hawick Scots language tag

[Chris Lunn]

Yep, sco-hawick should be fine - thanks for that. Would I need to change the
actual form, or would the people who register the forms know already (from
reading the messages here)?

Kevin - Thanks for the URL thingy, I'm always missing out bits of addresses!

-Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <aphillips at webmethods.com>
To: "Chris Lunn" <shiieru at yahoo.co.uk>; <ietf-languages at alvestrand.no>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:11 PM
Subject: RE: Hawick Scots language tag


> 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
> Director, Globalization Architecture
> webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility
> http://www.webMethods.com
> Chair, W3C Internationalization (I18N) Working Group
> Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force
> http://www.w3.org/International
>
> Internationalization is an architecture.
> It is not a feature.
>
> > -----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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