LL-L "Resources" 2012.06.26 (01) [EN]

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From: Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2012.06.23 (01) [EN]

Dear Ian

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
reference 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 Ulster-Scots
Grammar (1997, 2002)?  [Some listers might like to know that the latter is
available through the Ulster-Scots Language Society's website:
www.ulsterscotslanguage.com/shop].

I'll be eager to see the book and will be writing off-list in that regards.

All the best

Michael Montgomery
Honorary President, Ulster-Scots Language Society

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From: Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2012.06.23 (01) [EN]

Dear All

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 The Academic Study
of Ulster-Scots: Essays for and by Robert J Gregg 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.

With many thanks

Michael Montgomery

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