Re: Appalachia/Scots

From: congotre o
Message: 63135
Date: 2009-02-19

Where in Appalachia do they speak something closer to Lowland Scots than English?
Thanks.

From: david_russell_watson
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:22 PM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [tied] Re: Franco-Proven?al

--- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...>
wrote:

>
> Mine didn't. They spoke Gaelic, Welsh, Irish, Scots, German,
> French and Dutch. The Appalachian dialect my cousins speak
> is still closer to Scots than to English.

But Scots is just a dialect of English, isn't it?

;^)

David