Date: 14 January 2010 BROCKLEBANK : ‘SNP MUST STOP PEDDLING MYTH OF SEPARATE SCOTS LANGUAGE’ A new report from the Scottish Government on public attitudes to the Scots Language has shown that 64% of the Scottish public do not regard Scots as a language. With only 16% of the public strongly believing that Scots is a language it is surely time for the SNP to stop wasting taxpayer money in trying to promote Scots as a separate language.
Commenting, Shadow Minister for Culture, Ted Brocklebank, said;
“It is no surprise that 64 per cent of the Scottish public do not believe that Scots is a language. This is because we already have a Scots language - it is called Gaelic. The Scots language that the SNP Government continues to try to promote is not a separate language but a collection of regional dialects of the English language.
“There are richly diverse dialects spoken across Scotland from Doric in Aberdeenshire and Nordic in the Shetlands to Lallans in the Borders. But as expressive as these dialects are they do not constitute a Scots language. The SNP really must stop wasting taxpayer money trying to invent something that doesn’t exist in a wrong-headed attempt to promote the nationalist agenda.” | 
