Re: USAGE: Scots

Ted E. Saratoga scripsit:

>  John, Is there any website on the form of Scots used in the recentlytranslated
>  Bible.?? Does it have a name.??
IIRC, there are twelve different varieties of Scots in use for various
different people.  But I have never read it entire.

> Are you in Scotland??
No.

> Has this helped to standardize the current language? Suchthings often  do.
Not AFAIK.

> Most of us are familiar with some phonetic and vocabulary differences,but what
> grammatical features has Scots that diffier from the English?? When is the
> word order different??
Well, one I remember is the use of "what" as a relative particle, which is
ungrammatical in Standard English though common enough in the dialects.
"Scots wha hae" should really be "Scots ut hae" (i.e. "Scots what have");
Burns was correcting his Scots to make it more English here.
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John Cowan                                <jcowan@...>
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