LL-L: "Organizations" LOWLANDS-L, 10.JAN.2001 (01) [E]

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From: Ian James Parsley <parsleyij at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L: "Organizations" LOWLANDS-L, 09.JAN.2001 (07) [E]

Cristoir,

The text about Ulster-Scots was indeed written by
yours truly on behalf of the Linenhall Library in
Belfast. It's a good exhibition - usually it includes
the languages of ethnic minorities as well.

One has to be very careful reading things about
Ulster-Scots - as usual in Ireland, a lot of things
are passed off as 'fact' before they've been properly
researched (or even in the presence of quite
compelling evidence to the contrary!) Certainly there
is a tendency for some words to be described as
'Ulster-Scots words' when this actually means that
they are *used* in Ulster-Scots - not necessarily that
they derive from it. However, I can assure you the
text for that exhibition was researched! My
'Introduction to Ulster-Scots' on my website is a
slightly longer version:

http://www.geocities.com/ullans.html

GRMA

Ian.

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