Quote Originally Posted by Peter C. View Post
It is not scots it is simply English with a Scottish accent written phonetically.

Peter

One could just as easily say that what you are writing is Scots with an English accent. But Scots is more than an accent. It is at least a dialect, if not a language. And as some one once said, a language is a dialect with an army.


Both Scots and English developed at the same time and from the same source, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes who invaded eastern, nothern and southern England and the Scottish Lowlands at the same time. But Received Pronunciation English has, until recently, been thought of as normative while all others aren't. This has been changing in recent years, as anti-imperialist sentiment works its way down, or up, the social scale.