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   From: Féach@d.óir   
      
   Scríobh "Westprog" :   
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   >"Féachadóir"  wrote in message   
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   >> 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.   
   >   
   >I think the idea that there are two separate things, one of which is the   
   >language "Lowland Scots", and the other English spoken with an accent,   
   >doesn't really bear close examination. There's a spectrum. There are plenty   
   >of sub-dialects as well.   
      
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