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I'm from Scotland, "Scottish" sounds right to my ear in this instance. "Scots" is a proper dialect, the one used by Burns, and is not widely spoken any more. "
by hrnnnnnn 10y ago
I'm from Scotland, "Scottish" sounds right to my ear in this instance.
"Scots" is a proper dialect, the one used by Burns, and is not widely spoken any more. "Scottish English", in my experience, is usually only used when distinguishing colloquial Scottish from Scots, or when discussing the various British variants of English.
- Spakman 10y agoI used to think the same sort of thing regarding the Scots language, but a while ago I came across this website that disagrees: http://www.ayecan.com/faq.html#answer1 http://www.ayecan.com/faq.html#answer1
- hrnnnnnn 10y ago"If you are able to understand the local Scottish dialect of the area where you were brought up, or the area where you have chosen to live, or both, this means that you can understand Scots." The way I understand "Scots" is the dialect Robert Burns writes in, and I have a really hard time understanding that without a dictionary. It seems like a useful distinction to me, rather than lumping "Colloquial, contemporary Scottish English" and "the way Scottish farmers spoke a hundred years ago" under the same name.