On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:06 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> You need to distinguish between "Scottish English" and "Scots", the >> latter being related to English, but isn't English, much as Danish is >> related to Swedish, but isn't Swedish. > > Ah. When I referred to a "Scots" word, I was talking about the Gaelic > language, which has a number of delightfully expressive terms just > waiting to be borrowed!
By the way: I've since been corrected, and what I meant was not actually the Scottish Gaelic language but the one that is actually referred to as "Scots". My clarification was unhelpfully unclear, and I apologize. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
