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Posted By: Snuffy
19-Oct-06 - 12:24 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
And plenty more on irish-speaking dissenters here Presbyterian Emigrations from Ulster to South Carolina; the Cahans Exodus from Ballybay to Abbeville in 1764.

Religious affiliation did not inevitably follow linguistic boundaries, and vice versa; the situation appears to have been far more fragmented than is commonly realised. Like Catholics, albeit to a lesser extent, dissenters suffered the displeasure of English law, and offered resistance.