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> The grammar was different than standard english, but similar to the way some southerners talk. It's interesting that you mention this, since there are a lot
by jschwartzi 8y ago
> The grammar was different than standard english, but similar to the way some southerners talk.
It's interesting that you mention this, since there are a lot of Scottish-descent people in the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains in the southeast of the United States. I had some distant relatives there who still had a clan affiliation that I met once when I was a child.
- lewis500 8y agoYeah that’s who my mom is descended from and I’m from Alabama. What happened is There was a migration of scots Presbyterians to Northern Ireland, and then from Northern Ireland to Appalachia. In the south they call that ethnicity scots-Irish but over there I think they call it Ulster Irish. For a while there were a series of books about the scots Irish (eg “born fighting” by senator jim Webb and the chapter in outliers by Malcolm gladwell about why scots Irish are so violent—-for some reason all the books were about violence...I suppose because the people who buy the books want to thing if themselves as brave and dangerous).
- ploika 8y agoMinor nitpick: it would be called Ulster Scots rather than Ulster Irish.