August 2013 Archives

The foreignness scale

31/08/2013 thomas 2 Comments

In a recent blog posting, Herald journalist David Leask wrote: ‘[T]here are many places […] where the concept of “foreign”

21/08/201319/08/2014 thomas 10 Comments

Linguists have established various rules for how people interact with each another, the so-called Gricean Maxims. These rules can be

15/08/201315/08/2013 thomas 0 Comments

When Better Together and other unionists are asked to present the positive case for the Union, they tend to struggle.

13/08/201313/08/2013 thomas 25 Comments

The Scotsman today published an interesting interview with the American psephologist Nate Silver. Let’s have a look at the interview

09/08/201309/08/2013 thomas 6 Comments

Wings over Scotland recently commissioned a Panelbase poll and today published the results for the media questions. Here’s what the

08/08/201308/08/2013 thomas 3 Comments

If you read Norwegian texts from the period when Norway was ruled from Copenhagen (1397–1814), you don’t get the impression

05/08/2013 thomas 11 Comments

Fife is a bonnie part of Scotland, but obviously when it’s called the Kingdom of Fife it’s just a way