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<h1 class="">Bella Caledonia: A wee scrieve oan Scots leid policy</h1>
<p>By David Officer, artist and writer based in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire</p>
<p><strong>THE launch of Creative Scotland’s Scots language policy today is long overdue and sorely needed. </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2015/06/04/a-wee-scrieve-oan-scots-leid-policy/" target="_blank">(Click here to read more).</a></p>
<p>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”.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><a href="http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2015/06/04/a-wee-scrieve-oan-scots-leid-policy/" target="_blank">Click here to read the full article on Bella Caledonia.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/1535/bella-caledonia-a-wee-scrieve-oan-scots-leid-policy">https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/1535/bella-caledonia-a-wee-scrieve-oan-scots-leid-policy</a><br></p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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