XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: smaill@SPAMinf.ed.ac.uk   
      
   "Chess One"  writes:   
      
   > I had just wondered what you meant by your list, Bob. Obviously lowland   
   > scots would have to speak something, and I wondered what your emphasis was?   
   > Certainly 'most highlanders don't speak a form of lowland scots [dialect]'   
   > and most lowland scots don't speak Gaellic. Even 'standard' English is a   
   > [invented] dialect, courtesy the BBC.   
   >   
   > I doubt lowland scots to be any more difficult to ken than Cornish accented   
   > English.   
      
   The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language will   
   disagree with you on that, FWIW.   
      
   > Phil Innes   
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