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The Scots language in an independent Scotland

06/09/201306/09/2013 thomas 22 Comments

I’ve met many people on either side of the independence debate who seem to regard Gaelic as one of the

05/09/201305/09/2013 thomas 0 Comments

Keen readers of this blog might recall that I wrote the following back in March: The effect is that according

01/09/201301/09/2013 thomas 3 Comments

I spent some time today recording episode 33 of the For A’ That podcast together with Michael Greenwell and the

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

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