Quote Originally Posted by george7 View Post
That's fun... but how many people actually speak Scots?
You would be surprised just how much it is still spoken in the some of the rural areas, e.g. Ayrshire. Like other dialects/languages it has suffered from modern communication and transport, but much still remains. I moved from Glasgow to Ayr when I was fourteen, only thirty miles or so, and had to expand my vocabulary and grammar very quickly to keep up. The town itself wasn't too bad, but I went to school with many kids from the smaller country towns and villages who spoke very different English from me.