LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.12.27 (01) [E]

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From: ntl <shoogly at ntlworld.com>
Subject: LL-L "Expressions" 2002.12.26 (03) [E]


> From: rossmay <rossmay at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: LL-L "Expressions" 2002.12.26 (01) [E/S]
>
> I have with interest followed Sandy and George in their comments.  Scots
is
> a very humorous and dry dialect, and I love it.  I don't know at which
stage
> my ancestors abandoned it for the Southern dialect of the United States,
but
> they have been here since the very early 1700's, from Ulster, and
originally
> from Skye and Aberdeen.  George, I wonder if you are confusing verse,
which
> has no rules, with writing.  I don't think you need to parse it to make it
> correct.
>
>       And besides, as a scholar, I don't never use no damned double
> negatives!     BG
>
>                   Harlan Ross May
>                    Gulfport, Mississippi, USA

Just some points of clarification:
Scots is NOT  a dialect - but a seperate language.
You say that your ancestors came from Ulster, Skye and Aberdeen.  If they
spoke Scots - they would have spoken Ulster Scots ( Ullans ) - unless they
spoke Irish Gaelic, and N.E Scots ( Aberdeen area ) both of which are very
distincitctive dialects of Scots - Colin Wilson's book "Scots language
leaner" - shows a good example of N.E Scots - any of us Scots reading it or
listening to the CDs would immediately say "Aberdeen!".  Your ancestors form
Skye would have been Gaelic speaking. Skye Gaelic is a very distinctive
dialect of Gaelic and has always been considered a beautiful and pure
dialect.

Yours

Chris Ferguson

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