From: [email protected] (The Nit Nurse)
Subject: Scots language web site makes the papers
Date: 1996/08/19
Message-ID: #1/1
organization: Glesga Yooni
newsgroups: soc.culture.scottish,scot.scots,scot.general



Seems that Clive's web site has drawn the attention of the newspapers!

From: Scotland on Sunday, Aug 18th

SCOT IN THE WEB
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A chap at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and technology,
better known as UMIST (Q: would the University of Paisley dare start
something similar?) has set up the Scots language's first web site or 'wabsteid'
dedicated "ti the furtherin o the Scots leid". The version of Scots seems to
be a cross between Doric and the vernacular - Dracula? - but, as the chap
behind it is English, this may explain it. He is promising "a wee Dictionar o
Modren Yiss" and new made-up Scots words for the likes of cassette and
telephone ('yoospeek' is his suggestion). The question the Diary would like
answered is this: 'hoora thump dyae git pied fur keech lik yon?'