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“The late David Kaye recalled hearing a snatch of conversation on the street in the Gorbals … in the 1950s. In response to a neighbour’s question, Ach, are you weel?, came the response: Oy, vay’z mir, ich hob ayn gey sair heid”
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Scotslanguage.com - Scots-Yiddish: A Dialect Re-imagined
The Jewish immigrants from Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe brought to every city in which they settled a mother language, the mamaloshen, known as Yiddish, along with Hebrew, their language of relig...
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June 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Here's a link to the poem:

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Merry Dancers
The Bear’s noust was buskit bricht, as langships flichtered skinklin sails in seelent seas abune the easin. The ferlie fleet, skirin, flitted throu the pitmirk haugh o stervin hirsels, heizin …
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June 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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The Council of Europe's Charter for Regional or Minority Languages recognised Scots as a minority language in 2000 and the UK Govt ratified Scots as such in 2001 under Part II of the Charter. So now Strasbourg, Edinburgh & London all see Scots as a language.

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What languages does the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages apply to? - European Charter for Regional <br>or Minority Languages - www.coe.int
The Charter applies to regional and minority languages, non-territorial languages and less widely used official languages. Within its scope are only the languages traditionally used within a state’s t...
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June 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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An aunt of mine remarked to me:
‘Ah’m no froom
Bit whan Ah see them
Ee’in the trayfi meat
It scunners me.’
I found this very striking.

—AC Jacobs, “Dear Mr Leonard”
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Dear Mr Leonard A. C. Jacobs I wonder whether you'd be Interested, But one Saturday afternoon During the course of a religious discussion An aunt of mine remarked to me: ‘Ah’m no froom Bit whan Ah see them Ee’in the trayfi meat It scunners me.’ I found this very striking And it occurs to me You could use it In one of your poems. Anyway, you might want to Think about it.
May 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM