Ah Kid Dae That Joab – It’d be a Skoosh!

Thanks again to Stu for directing me to this article from the BBC (also reproduced below)

A translation company is looking to recruit Glaswegian interpreters to help business clients who are baffled by the local dialect.
Today Translations placed an advert in The Herald newspaper on Tuesday seeking speakers of “Glaswegian English”.
Successful candidates, who could earn up [...]

Trboule Wtih Wodrs?

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid [...]

Bill Wilson – What a Tumshie!

He wants supermarkets to label fruit and veg in the Scots language.
The West of Scotland MSP, a long-time campaigner for Scots to be given equal status as a recognised language, raised the issue with Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s.
I’ve written before about people who feel the need to talk as if they were acting out a [...]

Apostrophes Excluded

From answers.com
“Where a business name is based on a family name, it may or may not take an apostrophe (compare Sainsbury’s and Harrods), though in recent times there has been an increasing tendency to drop the apostrophe. Names based on a first name are more likely to take an apostrophe (Joe’s Crab Shack). A small [...]

Preposterous Apostrophes

Today, I noticed these:

The End for Predictors of Beaconicity?

I have written here and on my previous blog about one of my pet hates – i.e. gobbledygook. Gobbledygook (meaningless verbosity) of course is beloved of consultants and also those involved in government.
Particularly local government
I have quoted this beauty on a couple of occasions. It was delivered at a seminar I attended in November 2007 [...]

Mind Your Language

Thanks to today’s Independent.
“Celtic dialects from across Britain are featured in a new atlas of the world’s dead and endangered languages. Manx and Cornish have been declared “extinct” languages and Scottish Gaelic and Welsh will both need help if they are going to survive the 21st century, experts said.

The latest edition of Unesco’s Atlas of [...]

Scots Language Project

Now this is fine. Learning some of the great Scots words is good.
Especially for Mr and the future Mrs Cake and Missy forbye…..

More Scots Language Stuff and Nonsense

When I went to school many years ago there were certain linguistic cardinal sins. If some poor unfortunate child said “Ah’m arenae” instead of I’m not or “wir” instead or our, they could be hauled out in front of the class and skelped with one of Lochgelly’s finest.
Now we find that not only are these [...]

Taboo or not Taboo

Following on from the Carol Thatcher thing (see my post below “Double Standards”) I kept asking the question why Thatcher’s  comment was seized on whilst many others in the British media go about their stock in trade racism relatively untroubled.
I have an answer as I had when I posed the question.
Simon Heffer in the Telegraph [...]