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Whit is Scots?
Socio-political pressures hae aften demandit that Scots be dauntened in fauvour o a dominant, staundartised English, (Samuel Johnson cried the Scots tung a ‘rough and uncouth brogue’). Houaniver Scots bade wi us in everyday speech, in poetry, story an sang, finnin a vyce throu the literary revivals o Alan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson an Robert Burns.
The level o Scots yaised in the present day micht lippen on wha happens tae be the spikker.
https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/whit-is-scots/
Socio-political pressures hae aften demandit that Scots be dauntened in fauvour o a dominant, staundartised English, (Samuel Johnson cried the Scots tung a ‘rough and uncouth brogue’). Houaniver Scots bade wi us in everyday speech, in poetry, story an sang, finnin a vyce throu the literary revivals o Alan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson an Robert Burns.
The level o Scots yaised in the present day micht lippen on wha happens tae be the spikker.
https://wee-windaes.nls.uk/whit-is-scots/