by Paul Kavanagh
WE’VE COME a long way in challenging the Cringe, but Scotland still has its newspaper columnists who confidently pontificate from a position of ignorance about Scotland’s languages, and how they are apparently not really languages at all.
Scotland’s got a lovely new bridge across the Forth, but it’s still got a British establishment whose instinctive reaction is to sneer, mock and belittle anything that’s Scottish.