Thanks, Megan! Just what I was looking for! And no, Scabby, I'm not laboring under any misapprehension that it's the language I'd hear spoken in the Plough (rhyming with "shoe"), a great "singing pub" in Keith, Aberdeenshire. The first time I stepped into that pub, I didn't even know when I was being offered a drink, and it wasn't just the vowel changes; the substitution of "f" for initial "wh," as in "fit's a dee" for "what's to do," can take some getting used to. But I learned. I also learned that the same people can talk more or less "Scots" depending on whom they're talking to, or what they're talking about, or where they are.... In other words, even without the Gallic (which I gave up on) there's a great range of language in Scotland, and "standard English" is part of the mix...