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Date: 30 May 2022 11:49 am (UTC)
daegaer: (I'm an old woman now with one foot in th)
From: [personal profile] daegaer
Ulster Scots is plagued by politics, alas! Forget the "Is Scots a dialect of English?" debate, there's a whole "Is US a dialect of English or Scots or does it even exist at all outside of sectarian politics?" debate.

Someone who would be expected to be PRO-Ulster Scots, saying it's not a language

An argument that it's a variant of Scots

An informational leaflet from the British-Irish Council, suggesting that words like kirk exist in place names. (Many of the words and some of the phrases it gives as Ulster-Scots are straightforward Hiberno-English, though!)
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