Yes, but is every Scots dialect intelligible to every native Scots speaker, or are there mutually unintelligible regional dialects. Think Cockney versus Oxford or Boston, MA versus Augusta, GA.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 11:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: RE: [EXT] Re: z/OSMF 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://secure-web.cisco.com/1r9qPuoqLqtf3IYZ0Zxlppc7IPF2YAqokhEHj3SNsux6RRnxwuL94yaqUqP54peAhFhhR5zCFrxD5RXFKezvCn7pbltnIdxBzW55cweuNZ8Tb22XqKe7LjKGAHoiRr1tyyzggmtmsSKLPrpOe0R9hO8J_EGta5XQ0KInY4Yc6K4BzBJm_gap0_897esGAEdBMwUIPzN65BDOUnjyQQ3ER5qmf6TCFzQg3AmHrHr8RH6TrZPww3tY6enTkvluBqkChFbSbgOzDnw9EPCrLvC3zBOpHUqPbBGbRM1dZmkwYJBYu57JakQSAbaAUB08xrBIU2k0HS2fmxlTH96kH84FhbRbtVfay0nn5r5hWhOH_5mvNzeOsIgPNU_vSuY8iu01vT6yzESkVZUqY9fxacI8oFwPmLL6W9I26q1Cwh_mCRlU/https%3A%2F%2Fdsl.ac.uk%2Fabout-scots%2Fwhat-is-scots%2F https://secure-web.cisco.com/1sVgy4nXnfJIjFkEVlQ9XUkXsin-uQ6siFqpw6KIiowebvlp342haxE3ya83g4YjbPMM9Q29vt6Ddrp1JVtW0ssagt_zZS8h_WUlw2CABSHYu0mGqHHYqBse_ZIHOmrCsAIGTFpm4UfSbTDnWQvnOUEKjCXzkrDIt2Kz6G50TovDDo25qGJD2Mf9XtJ60-Ktu9rYwd_eUOZtWpEhtYk7HWzgKxiL3n2LBgTx8U0Imlr_Fl9cLPs-ELbtQK4YL4Pdx7-1ua3zOjKQPy-FiMgWo3QTKLXBWjCQEJ7QZU1If_mfbPtErZU0T6j2bf76g4JVXVkh95L2T86kwkVNrdAH6BRcAt0UhOIk_ywfsyGqXoot2WE6fp7dwAT4fDJplMJ9W_4Y3eGRiaTAEZtht2hiROthjpi1Sbg2O2z4F4nqj484/https%3A%2F%2Fdsl.ac.uk%2Fabout-scots%2Fa-language-or-a-dialect%2F -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
