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Scots is literally just English but spelled to reflect Scottish peoples accents with a few slang terms thrown in. So the “Scots” word for football is fitbaw, because that’s how they pronounce it. There is no etymology for the word fitbaw beyond the English etymology with a footnote stating this is how it’s pronounced in Scotland. If the Irish dropped every h from every “th” in English words because we struggle to pronounce it properly would we have created a new language? Of course not, and that’s all Scots is.
There's some words that are different though.
It's similar to the differences between written Danish and written Norwegian, which are clearly two different languages when it comes to the spoken form of both.
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.
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