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Well, it's hard to tell. You are very off and on with your humour these days Timmy.
I've also asked several (ie, two) Scottish people, and neither of them have heard of "Scots". There's Scottish (Gaelic), and, er, that's it.
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As oppossed to Irish gaelic. Hmm. I suppose it makes sense, but that page claimed that Scots and Gaelic were two different languages. And "Scottish Gaelic" still sounds better. "Scots" sound like one of those words said by people who aren't actually Scottish but are trying to be (like the horrible "Well, my greatgrandfather was Irish so that means I know everything about the emerald isle I like Guiness" crowd. It also shows up when people refer to the Scottish at "Scotch", which is just wrong on every imaginable level.
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My inclination has always been that in Scotland there's
"English, spoken with the oh-so-funny Scottish accent" which the overwhelming majority of those Scottish people speak.
"Scots," which is a dialect of English spoken primarily in the lowlands of Scotland during the murky times of warriors in kilts who looked like Mel Gibson, brought back to the forefront by that Burns fellow, and still spoken in the odd obscure lowland village where they screw sheep.
"Gaelic," also called "Scottish" or "Scottish Gaelic" which is a completely different Celtic language dating back to shortly after those Roman guys packed it in thanks to that woman with the impossible-to-spell name on the British penny. It, too, can be found in the odd sheep-screwing village, but in this case more commonly in the highlands. (Incidentally, silly people call the original Celtic language of Ireland "Gaelic" too, but pretty much everyone there calls it "Irish.")
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