Re: dialectal diversity in English

Chris Bates scripsit:

> I know the difference between gaelic (learned a bit once) and english,
> and I'm talking about a dialect of english not gaelic. Its possible that
> they could be bilingual and that that could make their english even more
> difficult to understand but I am not getting gaelic and english
> confused.
I say again, there are *three* languages spoken in Scotland:  Gaelic
(a Celtic language), Scots (a West Germanic language), and English
(another West Germanic language, the one most closely related to
Scots).  The varieties of English spoken in Scotland are more
or less influenced by Scots, but Scots is not a dialect of
English any more than Dutch is a dialect of German.

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