And its status in America, and how people are being taught not to speak that way (i.e. ASK instead of AX) etc.
My lecturer is going round the tables one by one asking why it has a lower status and why it’s looked down on.
I’m sat at the…
Wow. Example fail. When Scots *were* being oppressed by the English, the language was forbidden. Also, Scots dialect and the Gaelic language are two different things, which you’d think a sociolinguist *might* know. Even Wikipedia says Scots Gaelic is not to be confused with the Scots language/Scots English. (Which I appreciate is totally beside the point of the OP)
