[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Born Conservative]

bfl

[Hawthorn]

Nothing is more likely to rile up a lowland Scot than to tell him that he speaks a "dialect of English."

No, he'll tell you, he doesn't. Lowland Scots is a separate language!

(It's sometimes referred to as "Lollans," whereas the slightly different version spoken in northern Ireland is called "Ullans.")

[DManA]

Seems like there's a real brew-ha-ha brewing over this question.

showing that Scottish English, imported primarily by the Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scots or Scots-Irish, if you prefer), had a greater impact on the Appalachian English dialect than did the tongues of Southern England,

[the long march]

Scotch is a drink not a people. Makes me not want to read any further since the writer is not smart enough to know that