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There’s no such thing as a native speaker of Scots because Scots is not a language. I only speak English yet I can read Irvine Welsh books with ease. Am I now bilingual? Scots is retarded and deserves to be mocked by everyone, “native speakers” or otherwise.
With your retarded logic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Icelandic would all be the same language, and they'd be mutually intelligible from English, when clearly they are not, and English is not mutually intelligible with the four either.
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.
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