a scots tongue website

[skauwt]

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[Burly Brute]

Oh they're a mentioned a bit!

http://www.ayecan.com/faq.html#answer12

[skauwt]

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[Lallans]

Well as I understand the term, 'Scots' is the Lowland and Border Scots form of English, in other words a dialect of English, whereas the Highlands' traditional language is the Gaelic.

[Burly Brute]

Well as I understand the term, 'Scots' is the Lowland and Border Scots form of English, in other words a dialect of English, whereas the Highlands' traditional language is the Gaelic.

And, as they say in the Q&A that it is descended more from the Germanic. At least, that's from what I can gather.

[chrisupyonder]

This may interest you.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/dialects/nis.html

http://www.caithness.org/community/a...ll/wordies.htm

There are a lot of Viking links up here which you see in the place names. Thuso means Thors River and we also do this... Viking Procession and Ship Burning - Thurso Da Doonie Day 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJbdRE2KRt4

[skauwt]

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[Lallans]

And, as they say in the Q&A that it is descended more from the Germanic. At least, that's from what I can gather.

That would be in accord with the fact that Scottish Lowlanders are in general descendants of the Angles, who settled the area during the barbarian invasions, I mean after the 'civilized' Romans left Britain. And who were probably pushed there by the Normans.

English itself is of course a Germanic tongue, with a huge overlay of others including Norman French. This is much to the dismay of the modern French, because English words blend so easily back into French that it amounts to an irresistable force. Which serves them right for 1066!

[EagleJCS]

It's quite interesting to listen to the different Scots accents. I can actually understand most of what's being said, and I was raised here in the States. (I also tend to have an "ear" for accents and have been exposed to a variety of people from different backgrounds speaking English.)

('Course, we've got at least 6 different accents in Kentucky alone: Pikeville/Mountain, Covington/Northern KY, Lexington/Bluegrass, Louisville, South/Central, and Paducah/Western, with some blends here and there. Almost analagous to the physical geographic regions. It's fun to hear people from either end of the state - a separation of about 300 miles or so - try to understand what the other is saying sometimes. "Spake ainglush whadoncha!" "Ah aim speekin' inglish. Cain'tchya unnerstan whut ah'm sayin'?"

Interestingly, a couple of the Scots accents are actually somewhat like the Pikeville/Mountain accent. Probably not too surprising since the eastern part of KY - the mountains - were settled by mostly Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.)

If you weren't aware, there's a Wikipedia written in Scots: Wikipedia in Scots