Originally Posted by Gordon D
Originally Posted by howard


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


I'm no expert but there are plenty who are would dispute that. Scots is apparently a language in its own right.

https://www.gov.scot/policies/languages/scots/#scots


+1 and it's true that there are a lot of similarities with old Norsk with many shared words. There are Scottish dialects of English but to say that Scots itself is one of them is far from correct.

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