According to the Scottish Government, 'Scots' - a dialect spoken in parts of Lowland Scotland - is now a language. And all the nationalistic Little Scotlanders have 'corrected' Wikipedia. They can't bear England and Wales to have something they don't. It's like spoilt children. When you took a look at Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, above. you can see the angry, bumptious, intimidating attitude which prevails all too clearly.
Small attitude. Small country. Not a good advertisement for Scotland - and not one endorsed by many Scots.
Of course, Scots Nats and some plastic Scots born abroad - desperate for lovely, rosy coloured myths of their 'homeland' (Braveheart - ahem!) - love it. The 'Woke' also flock to it. Dear little oppressed Scotland! Higher funding, far better democratic representation, a vote on whether to stay in the UK, then the right to continue swaggering and belly-aching when the vote is 'Yes'... But oppressed.
Gaelic was the language of Scotland - and is a fascinating language indeed. "Scots" is an English dialect really - like Yorkshire. Or could we jiggle it?
For a start, if 'Scots' is a language, it cannot be called 'Scots' - because it's not spread across the whole of Scotland. English is, of course, spread across the whole of England. This pricks the 'Scots' nationalistic, jingoistic bubble a little, but 'Scots' could be called 'Southern Lowlands language' perhaps - with the Highlands having a 'Northern Highlands language'?
The links of 'Scots' to England and historic Northumberland in particular? Forget it! 'Wee' is middle English and is a colloquialism for the act of urinating in some parts of England, but the Scots must have their way - logic out the window!
Of course, the UK has many dialects. But if you're going to claim 'Scots' is a language ('Aye' is an English word, by the way. Ever been to the North of England? It's even used down south!) then it cannot be a national language, because it's not used nationally. A lot of it is English, or derived from English, and it cannot be called 'Scots' because most Scots don't use it.
It's not national.
Hope that's clear...
Scotland shows its insecurity and pettiness with this kind of illogical nonsense, nothing else.
Brick by brick, Scotland is becoming a madhouse - bursting with 'woke' mentality (England and Wales are the same on that score), fake victimhood (Wales has a dose of that too), jingoism (they were, of course, disproportionately active in colonising during the British Empire), historic revisionism, anti-English rhetoric, jealousy, and exclusivity - while pretending to love the world. But not their nearest neighbours - a far more multi-ethnic country than theirs.
And the Barnett Formula, the West Lothian Question and asymmetric national devolution...
A country of five million - an ever more jingoistic and deranged elite amongst its numbers - in a UK nation of how many?
