OFF: Re: 'Scots'/'Scotch'

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

>          `Genuine' Scots is not English with a thick brogue, but Gaelic,
>  an entirely separate language which you are very unlikely to hear in
>  Irvine Welsh's Edinburgh! Therefore, the average English person should
>  technically be able to understand a Glaswegian, but can they? Hell no!

    *Actually*, the technical term for the Scotish dialect of English is
"Scots" or "Scots English".  The non-English Scotish tongue is "Scots
Gaelic" (as distinct from Irish Gaelic, which also has a variety of
appellations).

Academically,
Carl