>> If you'll recall, during the Plantation in the 1600s, a great many
>> Lowland Scots emigrated to Northern Ireland as part of a plan to
>> protestantize Ireland. The Lowland Scots took their language with
>> them-- Lallans--
>
> They took Scots with them; "Lallans" means the mid-20th-century literary
> Scots of MacDiarmid and those he influenced.
>
Jack, I thought that Burns referred to his own local speech as Lallans,
meaning nothing more than Lowland, and this was subsequently adopted from
Burns onwards to describe that tongue - MacDiarmid notwithstanding as a
proponent?
David
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