In the Saddleworth area where I originate we have a very strange dialect. I am a proud possessor of several books in dialect which very few can understand. My Mum and Dad were native speakers and I learned it alongside normal English. Strangely enough when I read a dialect poem out to our friends from Bergen in Norway they understood it very well and said that I was speaking old Norse! I think it sad that dialects and even accents are fading away - they are part of our rich heritage.
Same experience in other parts of Greater Yorkshire. But nowadays much of the local dialect has died out to be replaced either by mangled slurred English , mock African American or Gudgerati.
I reckon its sad that Scots need to rename their local dailect of English as the Scots language. It isnt. Its just a regional dialect like lots of others in the UK
