Editing Ulster Scots dialect (section)

==Names==
While once referred to as ''Scotch-Irish'' by several researchers, that has now been superseded by the term ''Ulster Scots''.<ref>Harris, J. (1985) ''Phonological Variation and Change: Studies in Hiberno English'', Cambridge, p. 13</ref> Speakers usually refer to their vernacular as 'Big Scots',<ref name="Traynor, 36" >Traynor, Michael (1953) ''The English Dialect of Donegal''. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, p. 36</ref> '[[Scotch (adjective)|Scotch]]'<ref name="Traynor, 244" >Traynor (1953), p. 244</ref><ref>Nic Craith, M. (2002) ''Plural Identities—Singular Narratives''. Berghahn Books. p. 107</ref> or 'the hamely tongue'.<ref>Fenton, J. (1995) ''The Hamely Tongue: a Personal Record of Ulster-Scots in County Antrim'', Ulster-Scots Academic Press</ref> Since the 1980s ''Ullans'', a [[neologism]] popularized by the physician, amateur historian and politician [[Ian Adamson]],<ref>Falconer, G. (2006) "The Scots Tradition in Ulster", ''Scottish Studies Review'', Vol. 7, No. 2. p. 97</ref> merging ''Ulster'' and ''[[Lallans]]'', the Scots for ''Lowlands'',<ref>Hickey, R. (2004) ''A Sound Atlas of Irish English''. Walter de Gruyter. p. 156</ref> but also an acronym for "'''U'''lster-Scots '''l'''anguage in '''l'''iterature '''a'''nd '''n'''ative '''s'''peech"<ref name="Tymoczko M. 2003 p.159">Tymoczko, M. & Ireland, C. A. (2003) ''Language and Tradition in Ireland: Continuities and Displacements'', Univ of Massachusetts Press. p. 159</ref> and ''Ulstèr-Scotch'',<ref name="Ulster-Scots Agency"/><ref name="Anent Oorsels"/> the preferred revivalist parlance, have also been used. Occasionally, the term ''Habitual-Scots'' appears,<ref>Wells, J. C. (1982) ''Accents of English: the British Isles'', Cambridge University Press p. 449</ref> whether for the vernacular or [[Ulster Scots people|the ethnic group]].<ref>Winston, A. (1997) ''Global Convulsions: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism at the End of the Twentieth Century'', SUNY Press; p. 161</ref>