From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63137
Date: 2009-02-19
> From: david_russell_watson <liberty@...>No, I'd say English is a dialect of Scots --given that Scots is more conservative, much closer to Old English.
> Subject: [tied] Re: Franco-Provençal
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 8:22 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.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