Scots/Scotch

[Francoise Rosset]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 18:10:54 +0000
  William Ryan <wfr at SAS.AC.UK> wrote:
> A nice point, but not really an analogy since it is a matter of 
>regional preferences within a single language (more or less).

Lest we forget, there are elements in the Slavic world that 
consider(ed) Ukraine and the language as precisely that, a region (the 
very name confirms that as well as political history) and a dialect of 
a single language. So the analogy is dated, but not wholly invalid.

Your post points to some definitely curious usage. Terms of derision 
are traditionally attached to another ethnie or nationality. The 
Anglo-Saxon world "takes French leave" when we French prefer to "filer 
à l'anglaise."
-FR


Francoise Rosset, Associate Professor
Chair, Russian and Russian Studies
Coordinator, German and Russian
Wheaton College
Norton, Massachusetts 02766
Office: (508) 285-3696
FAX:   (508) 286-3640

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