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    • Willie on Yelling at the tide: “Just watched the latest citizen of Minnesota beaten to the ground by ICE agents and then dispatched with some 10…Jan 24, 19:27
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “Just a thought…why are the online introductory pages of DSL all in English? Why does the DSL effectively treat the…Jan 24, 18:59
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: ““…if some cite “Pictish DNA” (not so Billy Kay) as prime reason for championing it [Scots?], that logic seems not…Jan 24, 18:54
    • Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: “Its not that complicated at all. What you are describing are merely various forms of Cultural Imperialism. Language is one…Jan 24, 18:38
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “It is rather more complicated. https://media.scotslanguage.com/library/document/Scots%20Timeline%20Post-1700.pdf 1720’s Introduction to Scotland of the New Method of teaching English based directly on…Jan 24, 18:20
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “Chagos Islands, Thank goodness that Trump is stopping the financial fraud of funneling tax payers money out of Britain, Foreign…Jan 24, 17:35
    • Marie on Yelling at the tide: “The world’s greatest living half-Scotsman (lol) has backtracked on his offensive lies – trouble is the dough ball has already…Jan 24, 17:33
    • Alf Baird on Yelling at the tide: “As ‘a fowk’s’ langage is a determinant o the identity o the ‘fowk’ wha speak hit, it staunds tae reason…Jan 24, 17:14
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “if you compose text offline then paste and post, do you get moderated? it does seem so.Jan 24, 16:44
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “Following the archaeology of pictish digs, there is a pattern that implies the territorial boundaries and scope of pictland, i…Jan 24, 16:33
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “https://theconversation.com/how-celtic-languages-spread-across-britain-and-ireland-why-we-need-to-reconsider-the-early-story-271338 “..Recent studies of ancient DNA have revealed waves of migration into Britain from regions that are now in France…Jan 24, 16:13
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “Lallans speaking Scots settling in Orkney & Shetland aka Hjatland eventually ousted the local Norse, athough it survived long enough…Jan 24, 15:47
    • DaveL on Yelling at the tide: ““… which was better than WW1 where they were 3” Aye and it took them six months to organise themselves…Jan 24, 15:39
    • willie on Yelling at the tide: “It is truly outrageous how fickle Donald Trump and his administration are and how they can turn on longstanding friends…Jan 24, 14:52
    • Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh on Yelling at the tide: “Billy Kay on page 52 (kindle version) of his ‘Mither Tongue” book states that “Scots is descended from Northumbrian.” However,…Jan 24, 14:42
    • PC Foster on Yelling at the tide: “Confused says: so where do you get all the people you need now.? Dont know- but referring to women as…Jan 24, 14:36
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “Thanks, Northcode. I’ll mind that. Houaniver. Timeline of the Scots Language Since 1700 MODERN SCOTS PERIOD 1700 to Present, subdivided…Jan 24, 13:27
    • Confused on Yelling at the tide: “worth watching all the way, at least till the UN guy explains the scam www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2_7fxyIEI – it bears pointing out…Jan 24, 13:16
    • sam on Yelling at the tide: “And the Scots speakers in the English parliament were laughed at. However, Elizabeth I did not scorn Scots language. She…Jan 24, 13:15
    • Confused on Yelling at the tide: “quite funny – www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWWAC5ZMKeM www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBjsFAyiwA accurate depiction of the sterility (on all aspects) of protestantism; but this heresy is dead…Jan 24, 13:13
    • Confused on Yelling at the tide: “so trump spills the beans again, giving us truth british troops in the afghan were cowardly shites driving convertibles and…Jan 24, 13:11
    • Cynicus on Yelling at the tide: “Sam; “Katie Beardie had a coo, Black and white about the mou; Wasna that a dentie coo? Dance, Katie Beardie”…Jan 24, 12:38
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “North Code. The picts were one of the original indigenous populations of Scotland, then came the influx from Ireland of…Jan 24, 12:36
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “SCOTLAND….THE LAND THAT SEEKS TO DIE. https://archive.is/icxqPJan 24, 12:28
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “I did not know that, James. Thanks for enlightening me.Jan 24, 12:28
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Here’s another interestiing book about the Scots, Sam How the Scots Invented the Modern World: (The True Story of How…Jan 24, 12:24
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “North code. Did you know that one of the first revision of Scots laws was because the applied implications (as…Jan 24, 12:13
    • TURABDIN on Yelling at the tide: “re post, should read P CELTIC not Q CELTICJan 24, 12:04
    • Northcode on Yelling at the tide: “Thanks, Sam… I don’t have this one and it looks interesting. I’ll have a read and let you know what…Jan 24, 12:01
    • James Cheyne on Yelling at the tide: “The wokists in Scotland are the pretendy Scottish government. They are the ones that believe in this ideology cult, they…Jan 24, 12:01
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