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 mar utc