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   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh Alan Smaill :   
   >"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.   
      
   I would expect it depends on the listener.   
      
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