Also note that I didn't say it's not possible at all to find a job (even a high paying one) if you consistently only speak Scots. But it's most likely a signifi

Also note that I didn't say it's not possible at all to find a job (even a high paying one) if you consistently only speak Scots. But it's most likely a significant disadvantage (akin to speaking only basic English or not speaking English at all, depending on the extent of course). Scots or AAVE might not actually be "deficient English" but to a non-Scots or non-AAVE speaker of English they might as well be because the only thing that matters (biases aside) is intelligibility. For an absurd example: if you're a German company and hire a sophisticated Dutch native speaker who doesn't speak a word of German it doesn't matter how sophisticated their Dutch is, you'll still only understand a fraction of what they say and think they have a really strong accent (because the words you understand as German are actually Dutch and just happen to have the same origins). Of course it's less of a problem with Dutch because there's actually a language where Dutch is the official language and there is a large regional population of people all speaking the language and learning standardized rules for the language in schools. Scots at least has the large regional population. AAVE outside majority-black areas might as well be Scots because the majority of people won't find it mutually intelligible.