(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)