Wha cam up wi the tairm ‘plastic Scots” that his lowert like a derk clood ower onie ettle tae big up the written forms o oor tung? Wha’s haudin the the smokin gun? Noo we ken.
The BBC.
Fae Colin Nicholson’s 2012 buik on Edwin Morgan.
A like the Macdiarmid poems fine but quaistion his legacie. The Lallans/synthetic/plastic Scots stushie seems tae hae bin a steek tae ding doon Scots fur twa generations or mair. Ye read aw the time (aften in academic texts an aw) that onie written forms is just ‘Lallans’-type haivers wi naethin tae dae wi the ilkaday spoken tung.
In the threid Caroline Macafee talked aboot Douglas Young’s 1946 “Plastic Scots” buikie (anent the stushie atween the BBC/Herald an Hugh MacDiarmid). Here it is, an no a bad read at aw.
Young (1946) Plastic Scots