Scots Wikipaedia

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

[QUOTE=skauwt;758456]

because you are Scottish, you might know what you are talking about. I would hate for people to be misinformed as a result .
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slightly personal getting now,thats a few times that statement has come from yourself directed at me

if folk want to take one mans word for it then so be it but if they think everything i say is gospel then perhaps they outta do some more research in person rather than reading one mans opinion ive merly stated my views on the subject

Skauwt--

Just ignore the Trolls-In-Training and eventually they'll slink back to their wee little cave under the bridge...

As for me, I tend to give more weight to the opinion of those actually on the ground, then those merely looking at "maps".

Cheers, Mr. Chisholm, CHEERS!

[highlander_Daz]

Its long been said if we cant find someone to fight, we will fight each other .

dialect or language you decide. I have my views if you dont agree, my world wont stop spinning.

[thanmuwa]

Skauwt--

Just ignore the Trolls-In-Training and eventually they'll slink back to their wee little cave under the bridge...

As for me, I tend to give more weight to the opinion of those actually on the ground, then those merely looking at "maps".

Cheers, Mr. Chisholm, CHEERS!

Paisley (where I live) is in the Central Belt (or Central Lowlands), about 6 miles south-west from Glasgow City centre. Just in case you need that spelt out, it means I am "actually on the ground". How long did you claim you lived in Scotland? And you don't seem to have heard of Scotland's biggest town? Wierd

I disagreed with you when you made controversial comments. That makes me a troll? When I joined this board someone clearly forgot to send me a list of the people I am not allowed to disagree with. Could you include it in whatever response you make? Thanks.

And skauwt, when (if) you can present a single shred of convincing evidence that the Central Belt is not considered Lowlands, I will admit I am wrong and apologise. Until then I will maintain that you are misinforming people from a position of perceived authority on Scotland (being Scottish and living in Glasgow), intentionally or not.

[Phil]

Funny how these posts invariably descend into personal slanging matches just because of differing opinions. And opinions are what most of this post seems to consist of.
Scots as a language shares a common root, being descended from the Anglo-Saxon family of dialects introduced into the British Isles (although, of course,they weren't called that then) in the early 600's AD. It pervaded Scotland after the Normans quietly took over the place and replaced Gaelic to the east and south of the Highlands where it became the generally spoken language by the 1300's. There gradually developed two distinct dialects of this language, Scots and English which were linguistically similar but not identical. To say, therefore, that Scots is just English spoken with a Scottish accent has no basis in fact. To say they share a common root and then diverged over the last 1000+ years is the actual truth.
Perhaps what some contributors are really intending to say, however, is that Scots, as it exists today, is not a full-blown language in its own right any more. Many Scots nowadays have not grown up exposed to the language being spoken by parents, grandparents and their peers and have no knowledge of it as a result. I know there are many others who did have this upbringing but even here their Scots language principally consists of the words interspersed with modern English.
Sadly our modern society, influenced strongly by the media as it is, is becoming more and more linguistically "mid-atlantic" and less interested in the language of its forebears. While this is probably inevitable, it is a shame if words with such rich associations as "slarry", "slitter", "dichtie", "doitit", "glaur", "trauchle", "hurl", "breenge", "snell", "gomerel", "plowter" and so many others disappear through lack of use and disinterest.