Scots Language Wikipedia

**Chas** · 20th April 13, 02:49 PM

There is Scots, Lallans and the Doric. And here we get a lot of English written in a phoney Scots accent.

I believe that Burns wrote in dialect.

Scots IS a language.

Regards

Chas

**McElmurry** · 20th April 13, 02:53 PM

Originally Posted by Chas

There is Scots, Lallans and the Doric. And here we get a lot of English written in a phoney Scots accent.

I believe that Burns wrote in dialect.

Scots IS a language.

Regards

Chas

OK, so what do you call what is presented on the site in question?

**Chas** · 20th April 13, 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by McElmurry

OK, so what do you call what is presented on the site in question?

That is Scots. Quite definitely.

Regards

Chas

**kilted scholar** · 20th April 13, 04:10 PM

My comment was related to wikipedia as such. not to Scots. Awesome is not a word I would use for it.

**McElmurry** · 20th April 13, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by kilted scholar

My comment was related to wikipedia as such. not to Scots. Awesome is not a word I would use for it.

Five demerits for speaking in obtuse Angles.

**TheOfficialBren** · 22nd April 13, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by kilted scholar

My comment was related to wikipedia as such. not to Scots. Awesome is not a word I would use for it.

Seriously...can you guys lay off the "awesome" comment? I meant no disrespect. It was an expression of approval, whether linguistically viable or not.

Drop it with "awesome."

**kilted scholar** · 22nd April 13, 02:19 PM

RE #20

No.
I am not obsessing with that comment.
Originally I agreed with Neloon's remark about the use of the word.
Your reply implied that the comments by neloon and myself entailed some form of cultural problem.
In #16 I was simply stating that my question related not to Scots, but to wikipedia.
You used the word - we have a right to disagree. I have a right to state my reason. I recognize that you have a right to use it and object to objections.

**Mike_Oettle** · 22nd April 13, 07:55 AM

The Wiki page on “Leids” has at least one totally incorrect statement, where it avers that Scots – or Inglis – has only been in use in Scotland for three or four hundred years.
Anglo-Saxon dialects have been spoken north of the present-day border at least since the time when the Kings of Scots conquered the four kingdoms of the north and found that more of their subjects spoke Anglo-Saxon than Gaelic. This obliged them to acknowledge Inglis (later called Scots) as the court language.
Whether these dialects form a language distinct from what is spoken south of the border is a moot point.
The dialects (Doric, Lallans and what is apparently known distintively as Scots) together form a national group which deserves some kind of recognition, but in essense they are all, in turn, dialects of English.
They are, to a greater or lesser extent, derived from Old English (the language of the Northumbrians), which marks them as being significantly distant in dialectal terms from those spoken south of the border, which are developments of Middle English (especially in the north of England) and the language of the Book of Common Prayer, the King James Bible and of Shakespeare (which has become Modern English).
But they remain English dialects – or, if you will, Anglo-Saxon dialects.
Regards,
Mike

**MacBean** · 22nd April 13, 10:46 AM

I came across the site while re-reading George MacDonald's novel _Robert Falconer_. Though conversation is written in dialect, it isn't' too hard to understand. Thought some here might enjoy a glimpse into Victorian Scotland. The Wikipedia site was able to provide meanings for words I could not find elsewhere, so I found it helpful.

MacDonald may be familiar to some who grew up with his children's books, though they are a bit out of fashion now. Few have read his coming of age adult books but perhaps might enjoy them. They are available electronically on the Web or as downloads fron Barnes and Nobles. I am reading it on my phone. Yes, even old codgers sometimes learn new tricks.