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The foreignness scale

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

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

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

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

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

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