Quote Originally Posted by slohairt View Post
Perhaps this is what the Scottish Parliament and other institutions are trying to do: standardize things. And in the world of languages, that generally means favouring one dialect over another.

An haes been for aboot 300 years nou.
Good observation. One of the reasons I'm not particularly fond of Rabbi Burns is that, while he promoted common Scot by writing in dialect, he trashed other aspects of common Scottish life.

He had an agenda and very powerful allies. There was a vision of Scotland he had that he wanted to present to the world. He used his art to promote but the subject matter eradicated practices he disagreed with.