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From: wald@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kevin Wald)
Subject: Re: Scots and English (was: Re: Flemish and Dutch)
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In article <3pifkq$3rn@maverick.tad.eds.com>,
Stewart McKenna  <ahipc1j.smcken01@eds.com> wrote:
>wald@zarquon.uchicago.edu (Kevin Wald) wrote:
>> 
>> Well, if we're looking for a name for the modern descendants of Anglo-Saxon,
>> how about just "Modern Anglo-Saxon"? 
>
>You missed the point. The Scots may speak a form of English, or Scots,
>but they are. for the most part, NOT Anglo-Saxon !
>Mostly Celtic,( British, and Irish) , and a large proportion of Norse
>and Norman.

I'm sorry -- I may not have been sufficiently clear, here. When I referred
to the "modern descendants of Anglo-Saxon", I was referring to the 
Germanic languages of Scotland and England, which are descended from
(different varieties of) Anglo-Saxon. I was in no way making any claim 
about the ancestry of the Scots themselves. 

Kevin Wald               |    Hwaet saegest thu, yrthlingc?
wald@math.uchicago.edu   |         -- AElfric, _Colloquium Martianum_
