Okay y'all, I'm old enough to remember Nash Roberts and Bob Breck giving it to us straight. Now, most of the weather people just look like actors pointing at a map. Except Scot Pilie', who used to be on WGNO but left to take a new job doing coastal restoration work. Well, WGNO brought him back for the storm, and this dude, ha ha ha, talking straight and explaining everything in our language. Even the Chief Meteorologist just said that Scot is right on the money, Lol, "Seriously people, keep your shoes on, and don't go sightseeing in the Quarter right now." ha ha ha. I think he may be our new Nash. He's live on WGNO and FB Live.
Ulster Scots is a dialect, but it's a dialect of Scots not English. People angry about it's recognition should know that the Scottish Parliament and all of it's constituency's and ministerial positions are translated into both Scottish Gaelic and Scots and some Scottish government websites are. The Scottish government has an official Scots policy including in education. I have no position on how to best preserve it in NI but I don't know the point of people with no linguistic knowledge claiming it doesn't exist or is just a dialect, because Scots is universally considered a language (it was even more distinct from English historically, it was always close to English but since the union there has been heavy borrowing from English), and linguistically there is no clear cut way of deciding what is a language and what is a dialect (Hindi and Urdu have hundreds of millions of speakers but some linguistics consider them dialects of the same language), it's like arguing over whether something is a boat or ship, a stream or a river.
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/aye
When I post this question in other forums, a lot of Scots strongly disagree and downvote it, saying they've never encountered anyone in Scotland ever using "aye" to mean always, but that it always means "yes".
