Contributions by Steve Long

JoatSimeon at aol.com JoatSimeon at aol.com
Wed Oct 6 18:20:22 UTC 1999


>colkitto at sprint.ca writes:

>Actually, there is a linguistic consideration.  Scots used to have a large
>number of distinctive lexical items, differentiating it from "English". Many
>of these are now rare in everyday speech, thus reducing the amount of
>differentation.>>

-- upper-class Scots began conforming to southern English useage long before
the Act of Union of 1707.



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