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From: simon@rheged.dircon.co.uk (Simon Brooke)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 19:46:40 GMT
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In article <3nqtn1$b7v@bertha.gssec.bt.co.uk>,
Colin Wilson <cwilson@gssec.bt.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <3npbvt$ev5@giga.bga.com>, rbarends@bga.com (Rob Barends) writes:

>|> You're representing a lawyer's standpoint, which is not contradictory
>|> to the linguist's standpoint that Scottish is a dialect of English.
>
>I don't know that there _is_ one single linguist's standpoint... 
>
>I invite you to consider the following four statements:
>
>    (i) Scots is a dialect of English.
>    (ii) English is a dialect of Scots.
>    (iii) Scots and English are dialects of one language.
>    (iv) Scots and English are different languages.
>
>I personally would consider (iv) to be nearest to the truth, although I
>accept that a reasonable case can be made for (iii).

Gin ye war tae haud at, ye'd hae tae hae Dutch an Flemish in t forbye,
acause ilka yin is as lik an as unalik ilk ither. German, an aa. Whaur
wad ye fin an end tae t?

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