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Here s a selection of your views: Drew Allan expresses some concern about using in The Herald language some of our readership just don’t get . I believe that it would be doing The Herald readership a disservice if that concern led to the eradication of Scots words from your columns. These words are part of the history and culture of our country. For those who do not understand the occasional Scots word, the meaning can usually today be found out without too much difficulty – Ian W Thomson. There are people of many nationalities now living in Scotland and many will have English as their other language and some with the Scots Leid too. In there will be words many might not consider suitable, maybe as being slang, but for me the same answer is as given to the recent query about the use of swear words. The words used should be appropriate for the time and place of them appearing. So where is the line to be drawn? Probably where it is now –

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