Collogue:Unitit States

Izn't dis a wee bit overdoin it now, lads? Skotz izn't eevin a seperit langooige.

Looks like one to this "Inglis" speaker.

Actually Scots, according to it's article on this very website, evolved quite separately from modern English, due in part to the influences of Gaelic and the Scandinavian leids. The latter may well explain the origins of Scots words such as "Kirk", Lallans for church (and very similar to it's Danish counterpart "Kirke") and still part of the common lexicon in Scotland (note it's usage in this article from The Scotsman: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/39Many-could-quit-Kirk39-over.6792282.jp), as well as the tendency for Scottish variants of words such as "Night" and "Light" to be pronounced as "Nicht" and Licht". Also, according to an article (http://www.scots-online.org/airticles/eurlang.htm) by Dr. Dauvit Horsbroch of the Scots Language Centre there is evidence, namely in the form of a passage included in an epistle by the Italian linguist Giovani Florio regarding the languages spoken by Queen Elizabeth I, that "Scottish" and English were considered twa separate languages. Scots and southern English evolved from a common ancestor, however they did so as twa separate entities, the former, according to the English scholar Henry Savile, being the less "mingled and degenerate" of the twa (see article mentioned above).