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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Montgomery Michael <<a href="mailto:ullans@yahoo.com">ullans@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2012.06.23 (01) [EN]</span><br><br><font style="font-family:garamond,serif" size="3">Dear Ian<br>
<br>It
is intriguing to see that your book has evolved into print now nearly
nine years after you shared a draft with me for my input and I spent
many hours perusing that earlier version and offering comments and
suggestions about clarity and content. At that time one of your major
challenges, if not the principal one, was to decide whether your
approach was to provide a ref</font><font style="font-family:garamond,serif" size="3">erence
work or a usage guide. I felt that the volume had an awkward mixture
of description and prescription and that you needed to choose one
approach or the other because few lay readers could digest both
simultaneously. In that regard, it might be interesting to those on
this list if you could elaborate on how you went about splitting this
baby--or did you do so? I wonder also how
the book differs from Philip Robinson's <span style="font-style:italic">Ulster-Scots Grammar</span>
(1997, 2002)? [Some listers might like to know that the latter is
available through the Ulster-Scots Language Society's website:
<a href="http://www.ulsterscotslanguage.com/shop" target="_blank">www.ulsterscotslanguage.com/shop</a>].<br><br></font><font style="font-family:garamond,serif" size="3"> I'll be eager to see the book and will be writing off-list in that regards.<br>
<br>All the best<br><br>Michael Montgomery<br>Honorary President, Ulster-Scots Language Society</font><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>----------<br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
From: </span>Montgomery Michael <<a href="mailto:ullans@yahoo.com">ullans@yahoo.com</a>><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Subject: </span>LL-L "Resources" 2012.06.23 (01) [EN]<br>
<br><font style="font-family:garamond,serif" size="3">Dear All<br><br>In
a post earlier tonight I inadvertently neglected to say that John
Erskine and I are seeking to update the annotated bibliography on
Ulster-Scots language that was published in the volume <span style="font-style:italic">The Academic Study of Ulster-Scots: Essays for and by Robert J Gregg </span>in
2006, which has approximately 400 items. We do not include literature
in Ulster Scots, but do include items on Ulster English if they are
pertinent to Ulster Scots in some way. Because many items appear in
out-of-the-way publications, we depend on people to bring many of them
to our notice, and so we warmly solicit any and all--books, articles,
notes, book reviews, &c.--that have been published in recent years.
If John cannot track them down through his
post as Librarian of Stranmillis University College, we may be in touch
with the author)s_ t secure a copy. We do wish to annotate
everything. We look forward to including Ian Parsley's new book on the
list.<br><br>With many thanks<br><br>Michael Montgomery</font><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><div><br></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font>==============================</font><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========================<br>
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