On fitbaw an poetry

Bella Caledonia at Belladrum

Bella Caledonia’s Scots editors, Ally Heather an Tam Clark, met up at Belladrum for a blether aboot Scots, spikkers, an Selkirk FC.

Tam Clark talks mair anent these topics in the article below.

“Racists, transphobes, homophobes, bigots, ageists, disablists; aw richtly cawed oot for attitudes that are no acceptable in oor modern Scotland, but “it’s wirth takkin note that no anely has discriminatioun on the basis o language been alloued tae gang unchecked bi oor politícal heid yins, but forby that it’s thae verra politícians – Alex Cole-Hamilton, Murdo Fraser, Neil Findlay – wha are aft as no the warst offenders”.

Ceci N’est Pas Une Leid

Say we hidnae aw decidit that Scots wis a language. Say it hidnae been estaiblisht – tae the saitisfaction o aw concernt – that Scots hauds doon a patch on the same Wikipedia page as German, French an Esperanto.