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I write as a private individual with a passion for the Scots language, the ancient state language of Scotland in pre-Union times and the language of writers from Dunbar and Lyndsay, through Burns, to ...

Coming from a literary background, I know of a lot of writers who choose to compose their poems and stories in the Scots dialect. I say dialect because Scots in its purest form has completely died out ...