I'm not keen to get bogged down in a political debate of this kind.  And it is political.  You can pepper your prose all you like with talk of "phonological, lexical and gramatical structure", but this has no bearing on whether Ulster-Scots is a language, because that is purely a political and cultural judgement, not a linguistic one.  I'm also not keen on using talk pages to suggest alternate versions of articles.  If you want to change the article, feel free to do so.  Personally, I can't see what's wrong with it as it stands.  18:30, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)