A few slang terms, but nowhere near enough to declare it a separate language. English as it’s spoken in Yorkshire or Tyneside is more difficult for me to understand than English as its spoken in Scotland, or “Scots”, and they have a lot of their own regional words too like the Scots. Is it only because Yorkshire or Tyneside don’t have Irvine Welsh type authors that their regional dialects aren’t considered separate languages?
The Scots have a language. An ancient language. If they don’t have enough speakers left to teach them to speak it we can teach them. But they’re not bothered actually learning their own native tongue, and playing make-believe their phonetic English is a native tongue is even more pathetic when you consider they are too fucking lazy to learn their own language.
Pretty sure the ancient Scots is what they're talking about when they're talking about Scots revivalism.
I’m not so sure. There are less than 60,000 Scots Gaelic speakers in Scotland and they’re all out on the islands. In contrast there are nearly 1 million Welsh speakers and well over a million Irish speakers. The Scots are either not too bothered by their revival or they’re trying to pass off their regional English dialect as a native tongue to craft a more low effort revival for themselves.
Fair enough.
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