regional names

[Robin Hamilton]

> As far as I know, yes, though there's some debate about what
> "Scottis" meant during the late 1400's now, among the authorities.
> During that period, though, "Inglis" could mean either English of
> England, or Older Scots.
>
> Paul Johnston

Just to pick your brains further, Paul, does it still hold, what I was
taught in the sixties, that the dividing moment when it made sense to talk
of Scottish English as distinct from (northern) English English fell between
Barbour's _Brus_ and Blind Harry's _Wallace_?

Robin

>> Slightly off the point, but am I right in thinking Gavin Douglas
>> was the
>> first to use the term "Scottish" (in one of the Prefaces to the
>> Aeneads) to
>> refer to that branch of English spoken north of the Border, and
>> before that
>> "Scottis" referred to gaelic?
>>
>> Robin
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