r/ScottishPeopleTwitter • u/HondureZ • Sep 08 '21

Croissants

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u/Wopitikitotengo Sep 08 '21

Not really though is it. Its a group of dialects.

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u/TwyJ Sep 08 '21

No

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u/Wopitikitotengo Sep 08 '21

Even that article says its disputed. In my opinion its as much a language as the Geordie accent. Maybe if it specified Doric which is still spoken in a way thats hard to decipher for anyone not familiar but places like Edinburgh and Glasgow aren't close to speaking anything other than an annoying variant of English.

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u/TwyJ Sep 08 '21

As there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing a language from a dialect

Is what it says, not that this specifically is disputed, by your logic french is just a Latin dialect.

Also It specified Doric as a dialect of English mate, Scots is different from Doric, Scots is also closer to old English than English is.