Emma Grae
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Edinburgh Universityâs language cuts ignore the growing revival of Scots (opens the original)
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NEWS of Edinburgh Universityâs decision to axe Scots learning opportunities in its Celtic and Scottish Studies department has been rightfully met with outrage. Despite the fact that Scots was declared an official language of Scotland just last summer, its historic status as an âinferiorâ language to English is now being reinforced from within the capital itself. However, the future of Scots (and Gaelic, which is also affected) is not as bleak as the cuts might have you believe. The majorit
Reform need to get their facts right before lecturing us about Scotland's languages (opens the original)
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REFORM UK’s Thomas Kerr wrongly claimed that English is Scotland’s “native” language as he took aim at multilingual children. In an impassioned video, he said it was “unacceptable and unfair” that one in 10 children in Scottish schools “have English as an additional language”. Describing English as “the native language of this country”, Kerr said multilingual children put pressure on the education system and “grow up in Scotland struggling to speak the native language” – therefore having a “limi
How the English dictionary claimed Scots words as its own (opens the original)
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THE Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has delegitimised the Scots language by adding several new “Scottish” words. While English and Scots are sister languages characterised by mutual intelligibility, they are still very much separate languages with their own grammar, syntax and words. But decades of cultural oppression persist and Scots remains reduced to either slang, or, in this case, an offshoot of English. One of the recently added Scots words is “scaffie”, meaning “raggedy”. But writing as a
Stonewall Inn owners accuse JK Rowling of 'damaging LGBT community globally' (opens the original)
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THE owners of the Stonewall Inn – the birthplace of the modern gay Pride movement – have accused JK Rowling of "doing damage" to the LGBT+ community "globally". Speaking to The National, Stacy Lentz and Kurt Kelly, who co-own The Stonewall Inn in New York, where riots broke out in 1969 after a police raid on one of the few safe LGBT+ spaces that existed at the time, said: "JK Rowling, through her books and movie franchises and everything globally, has a platform and it has done damage. "Even tho
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