(last updated 2007-09-05)

LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM

1. Name of requester: Karen Broome
2. E-mail address of requester: karen_broome at spe.sony.com
3. Record Requested:

Type: variant
Subtag: scotland
Description: Scottish Standard English
Prefix: en

4. Intended meaning of the subtag:

Indicates a variant of English found in Scotland. This should not be
used to indicate Scots or Scottish Gaelic. It is intended to distinguish
Scottish Standard English from English variants spoken in England.

5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):

Abercrombie, D. (1979). "The accents of Standard English in Scotland.",
in A. J. Aitken & T. McArthur (eds.),: Languages of Scotland. Edinburgh:
Chambers, 65-84.

Wells, John C. (1982). Accents of English. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. ISBN 0-521-22919-7 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-521-24224-X (vol.
2), ISBN 0-521-24225-8 (vol. 3).

Hughes, A., Trudgill, P. & Watt, D. (Eds.) (2005). English Accents and
Dialects (4th Ed.). London: Arnold. ISBN 0-340-88718-4.

(file created 2007-09-05)