LL-L: "Grammar" LOWLANDS-L, 27.JUL.2000 (04) [S]

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From: Colin Wilson [lcwilson at iee.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Grammar" LOWLANDS-L, 26.JUL.2000 (04) [S]

At 16:29 26/07/00 -0700, John M. Tait wrate:
>But this is exactly whit I'm sayin. Thae fowk sees maist o the tradeitional
>Scots vocabular no as bein 'Scots' but as some ither bodie's dialect

A canna say that A'm haillie wi John here - is there nae a fair distance
atween fowk seein Scots as "some ither bodie's dialect", an them seein
it as "a middle-class affectation"?

I think there is, oniewey.

> - exactly
>like speakers o standard English sees it. Sae yer 'Stertin Oot in Scots'
micht
>as weel be 'Stertin Oot in Teuchterspeak', cause that's whit it wad seem like
>ti thaim.

Ay. Nae surprises there!

Colin Wilson.

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