The article also says > Scots never incorporated all that Norman stuff So wouldn't that mean these 20 Norman words from your English-language comment above:

The article also says > Scots never incorporated all that Norman stuff So wouldn't that mean these 20 Norman words from your English-language comment above: > enjoy, accent, difference, language, dialect, army, navy, insist, separate, nation, article, mention, real, study, master, local, pronounce, point, claim, apparent wouldn't exist in Scots? That's a language, not a dialect.