We should note that 33% of taxpayers in the Perth and Kinross council area reported that they consider themselves able to speak or read Scots.

Its nice that they have finally spent some of the acquisitions budget on books written in Scots.

On the other hand, this still represents a tiny proportion of the monthly book acquisitions.

On the one hand this is a huge increase in the usual monthly acquisitions of Scots titles, where sometimes they buy none, or one or two titles.

The idea of a "Smartphone-Free School" is completely incompatible with diabetes treatment for children in the UK.

Merely having an exemption in any school policies isn't enough - the whole brand name has to go.

It was World Diabetes Day on Friday, raising awareness about the condition.

In the UK, about 400,000 people have Type 1 diabetes, and the normal treatment for it involves having a glucose sensor attached to your body and a smartphone.

Aye, I know that "gadgie" is quite a common vernacular term from traveller cant, in several regions of Scotland, but here Dr Hirst is using "gadze" as something like a technical term.

Is it the same word with both a general meaning and a specific meaning, or are these two different words?

Feel free to have a go at the survey.

forms.gle/QHfzAGZN3dk8...

The more results and opinions from different people and places will give a richer and more nuanced picture.

Also suggestions of other generic social contexts would be useful.

So pub landlords might say "everyone round here speaks Scots", but lawyers might say "no one speaks Scots to me".

There were a few places which reported over 50% but none with more than 70%.

So perhaps its all about perception. In the survey almost everyone is saying they might speak Scots in the pub, but not when speaking to a lawyer.

You've hit on the reason why I'm trying to do this survey. In the census about 20% of people in Edinburgh said they considered themselves able to speak or read Scots, this isn't so far from the national average of 32%.

Comparing one in five people to one in three.

I'm not so sure.

There isn't much of an urban/rural divide in the census data.

There its more of a north/south divide, and even there the difference is between 25% Scots speakers and 35% Scots speakers.