On Wed, 5 Jul 2023, at 18:25, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Yes, but is every Scots dialect intelligible to every native Scots > speaker,
I doubt it; the dialects spoken by people in Shetland and Orkney (the latter right now considering a return to Norwegian rule!) are substantially different from that spoken in lowland Scotland. See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-66090102 Also, very many people who would consider themselves Scots, but not speakers of Scots, speak mainly English with greater or lesser amounts of Scots vocab intermixed. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
