User talk:Nogger

Scots English
I am not sure why you moved 'Scots English' back to 'Scottish English'. Is it because you believe it is more correct or because I had yet to change terms on the page? If it is the former, the references I could find—AskOxford: Scots, Dictionary.com/Scots English, etc.—list Scots as preferrable to Scottish. Cheers, Pædia | talk 18:28, 2004 Apr 30 (UTC)

Most all (I can't think of any exceptions) literature on the Subject uses the term Scottish English. I assume this to be the preferred use and thus correct.

With other things preferences vary between Scots and Scottish. See also Scotch

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Welcome back
Hello and welcome back to Wikipedia! I see from your contribs you were gone for almost two years. No wonder I hadn't seen you around language articles before; I've only been here a year and a half (and consider myself an old-timer)! Angr (talk • contribs) 15:08, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

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Ulster Scots dialects
Hi Nogger. I've no problem with your recent edits removing the hyphen from "Ulster-Scots", but just thought I'd point out that it's not a hard and fast rule; for example, both the Ulster-Scots Agency and Ulster-Scots Language Society use the hyphenated spelling, and it seems to be more common amongst Ullans speakers themselves. Best, JonChapple Talk 21:29, 9 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Thought it best to use the official UK Gov. terminology. The Nomenclature section of the Scots language article mentions some of the local names people have for their 'language'. Any others could, perhaps, be added there. Nogger (talk) 21:41, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, the Ulster-Scots Agency is publicly-funded body with the full sanctioning of the UK Gov't too, but I appreciate what you're saying. Don't think it would be appropriate for the nomenclature section though; it's only a hyphen, after all. JonChapple Talk 21:51, 9 August 2011 (UTC)

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