04/06/2015
By David Officer, artist and writer based in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire
THE launch of Creative Scotland’s Scots language policy today is long overdue and sorely needed.
I’m sure there’ll be many who view such a policy with suspicion and disdain; no doubt we’ll hear such choice phrases such as “Scots is a dialect, not a language”, “Why are we promoting teuchter rubbish?”, “only neds speak like that” or the classic “no one speaks like that anymore”.
But this is precisely why a Scots language policy is needed by Creative Scotland, the Scottish Government, Local Authorities and indeed all our publicly funded organisations across the country.
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Picture courtesy of Chris JL