"this person has possibly done more damage to the Scots language than
anyone else in history. They engaged in cultural vandalism on a hitherto
unprecedented scale. Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in
the world. Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots
is a horribly mangled rendering of English rather than being a language
or dialect of its own, all because they were exposed to a mangled
rendering of English being called Scots by this person and by this
person alone"
Indeed.
On 28.08.20 17:59, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by
one American teenager who can't speak Scots
"A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a
hamlet but smawer than a toun, wi a population rangin frae a few
hunder tae a few thoosand (sometimes tens o thoosands)."
https://boingboing.net/2020/08/27/almost-every-article-on-the-sc.html
https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/5724
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