On Wed, 5 Jul 2023, at 14:27, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Aggie derives from "agricultural school"; I assure you that the English > of, e.g.,Australia, New Zealand, UK, is just as opaque to us. > > Does Scotland have English terms that are understood in some regions > but not all?
Well, we have terms in Scots (which isn't English) which are commonly used in sentences with English terms around them. Two short useful articles: https://dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/what-is-scots/ https://dsl.ac.uk/about-scots/a-language-or-a-dialect/ -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
