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Published Date: 03 July 2009
THE Scottish Government published a report on 20 June about the state of the Scots language and announced it was setting up a working party under culture minister Michael Russell to consider the next steps.

There is a strange contradiction between different ideas about Scotland. Many historians, especially Americans, have been eloquent in praising us as an important cultural and intellectual influence. Harold Orel, for instance, in his book The Scotti...



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  • Last Updated: 02 July 2009 8:38 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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cynicalm,

Edinburgh 03/07/2009 03:32:41
Paul Scott is a raving nutcase if he thinks that "Scots" is other than an interesting dialect of English. None of my relatives have ever spoken this "mither tongue" for at least 100 years and the construct of wordsmiths and half-baked poets should be stuffed under their oxters and forgotten. In particular, the Broons and Oor Wullie speak a west of Scotland dialect with little relevance to the rest of Scotland, if you wish to hear a real language go to Buchan and the North East
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donald,

glasgow 03/07/2009 06:55:09
First the cannon and bayonet and then the ridicule.

Even London Jock carpetbaggers, like the Broon Darlings, are still subject to racial abuse. Nobody respects a traitor, no matter how useful they are.
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Pilrig,

Livingston 03/07/2009 21:45:33
1 - a resident of Morningside writes (in RP)
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Pilrig,

Livingston 03/07/2009 21:46:43
1 you must be related to Fifi..y'know,the bint who's never used the word 'tattie' ?

 

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