>>97466126>I don't think cannae or dinnae are GaelicThat's right, I never said they were.
Lowlanders speak Scots or English. More Scots around Aberdeen or Glasgow, more English around Lothian or Dumfries.
Cannae and Dinnae are the words for "can not" and "do not" in Scots. Not an accent thing, those are the real words in Scots. The similarity is where the "Scots is a dialect of English" belief comes from.
That's why I mentioned Broad Scots, which is a parallel language to English derived from Early Middle English (Anglic). She only knows a few words of Scots and speaks with a Lowland accent, so she wouldn't know any Scots Gael via deductive reasoning.
If Scots Gael is extremely uncommon among Lowland Scots, then a Lowland Scot wouldn't speak Scots Gael.
If Scots is largely seen as a dialect of English among Lowland Scots, then a Lowland Scot most likely speaks English with a few loan-words from Scots, treating it as a dialect.
