Re: USAGE: Scots

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> > 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.
Can you not say "I don't know what you're talking about"?

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