I WAS pleased to learn this week that First Minister Humza Yousaf plans to bring forward legislation to protect the Scottish languages.
While travelling this summer in Scandinavia and the Nordic countries my wife and I did our best to learn sufficient of the local languages to be able to introduce ourselves, order from a menu and manage with shopping. We were struck by the number of words we came across that may have different spellings but sound almost identical to words used in Scots.
For example, a common rodent is called a mus; it is not big, it is sma. Also sma is a bairn and if unwell he or she is syk. Efter being ute we will come back to the hus.Too often and for too long Scots has been referred to as “Scots English” and dismissed as at best a dialect of English or often as nothing more than slang.
Perhaps this would make a good PhD study for a linguist, unless someone can highlight work already published that supports my observations. I am reminded of Reinhard Heydrich talking about how to “Germanise the Czech [people]” he used an offensive, dehumanising word. He said “deprive the people of their national consciousness ... dilute their national pride, do not teach their history, propagate their language as inferior ... and dismiss
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