Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com
Wed Aug 22 02:52:18 CEST 2007
Did you read the references on my application? Here's another web page
that talks about where Standard Scottish English fits in with other
British dialects.
http://www.eng.umu.se/city/Fredrik/city/scottish.htm
Regards,
Karen Broome
Michael Everson <everson at evertype.com>
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Re: Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)
At 18:57 -0400 2007-08-21, John Cowan wrote:
>I take "defined" to mean "delineated" here. There is a
>brief sketch of its phonology and a few grammatical points at
>http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/sse.htm .
Um, dont' take this wrong, but I'm waaaaay underimpressed by that
page. "My hair needs washed" is standard in Pittsburgh. Half of that
"Scottish English" is stuff we say in Ireland.
> > >The term "Scottish English" is one often used by linguists to denote
> > >the variety of standard English used in Scotland, as opposed to
> > >Scots (Ethnologue code SCO).
>>
>> References?
>
>The same.
I'd like to see better. No offence.
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