Ulster Scots

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ulster Scots generally refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster. Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent - where lexical items have been re-allocated to the phoneme classes that are nearest to the equivalent standard classes – a situation equivalent to that of Lowland Scots...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ulster Scots generally refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster. Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent - where lexical items have been re-allocated to the phoneme classes that are nearest to the equivalent standard classes – a situation equivalent to that of Lowland Scots and Scottish Standard English. Ulster Scots has also been influenced by, and has itself influenced, Mid Ulster English. As a result of the competing influences of English and Scots source dialects, varieties can be characterised as 'more English' or 'more Scots'.While once referred to as Scotch-Irish by several researchers, that has now been superseded by the term Ulster Scots. Native Speakers usually refer to their vernacular as 'Scotch' or the 'hamely tongue'.