I agree Jock however if you travel over this fair land there is so much variation its impossible to come up with a "standard" for Scots English, also in the north of England there are many words and phrases that are common to both peoples "bonnie" "nay" "geet" "thy" are all claimed by Lancashire folk as their own, Id love to see more research into the distinct way that folk speak, regional dialects are dying and merging all the time, which is a shame, but languages constatly evolve all the time, I was recently in Wales and the Welsh are passionate about the Welsh language-even non Welsh speakers are passionate that signs are bi lingual, as far as "scottish" English goes its simply English by any other name, English is a language made up of words from other languages anyway and all the hullabaloo about "preserving" it is nonsense - its a foreign language to this country which weve adapted to suit, Id prefer to see resources and effort made into preserving and increasing awareness of scottish Gaelic. I know there are some sources that claim that Scottish Engish is a language of its own, Pleople aer free to belive that if they wish and its a debate that will run and run, The welsh have their own version of Englaish as well but choose to promote Welsh, without getting political I hope Salmond wiil address this.

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