Scottish English (was: LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM)

[Michael Everson]

At 18:43 -0700 2007-08-21, Karen_Broome at spe.sony.com wrote:

>English is a language and Scotland is a well-defined region. There 
>is no controversy about these two statements -- why is there so much 
>controversy over putting the two together? Isn't this what the 
>variant tag is for?

Because one wants to ensure that the variant tag delimits something 
specific. Glasgow and Edinburgh speech varieties are rather different.
-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com