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I HAVE a book; in fact I have 12 of them – Commonplace Books – but it is that first one that began my battle against grief. It says on the inside cover that it was given to me to collect things of importance, and none, by my daughter Julie in 1996 . It was a gift for Mother s Day and just a few weeks later she was dead – by suicide. I was greatly saddened by the words written by Teddy Jamieson, some of them spoken to him by Richard Coles ( When David died he took the future with him, so I have to put together another future , Herald Magazine, April 3) Both Teddy and Richard have quite recently lost greatly-loved people from their lives and are struggling to cope, and wonder how long the pain is going to last.
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 –