LIBERATION’S FIRST LEAFLET

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Here is the printer’s copy of Liberation’s first leaflet. It was inspired from a Independence leaflet from a successful Independence campaign organised in a close neighbouring country to Scotland around 100 years ago.

Hubs can order quantities from Salvo.Scot or they can request a printer pdf to arrange printing locally if that is more suitable. Please share this far and wide.


MY COMMENTS

This is the first step in our recruitment campaign. We have attracted thousands through our social media activities but recognise to get to 100,000 we need to break out of that bubble into the general populace. I favour for instance handing these out at football matches when the new season commences in a matter of weeks, but shopping areas, anywhere where people are congregated is good.

I am, as always

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    4. Bullet point facts are quick to read and take in. Recipients are far more likely to read it and not just bin it without looking at it.

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      2. But many know one of those languages has its own TV stations and significant, by comparison, funding support. How often do Gaelic organisations exclude Scots in their communications? Anyway we need to be positive not negative.

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      5. I agree with Iain though my granny had Gaelic as her first language BUT the point is fair that the Gaelic speaking crew may be upset:
        won’t they vote YES anyway?
        can we reduce the font size and add ‘Gaelic is dying’ perhaps in Gaelic?
        if there is a reprint I’d go with “Our Scottish languages”

        I love the bit abut Scottish politicians having failed us – we need to get the message home that independence is not a political promise – it is fundamental and it is our right. No independent democracy is run by one political party – though the nuSNP seem to think they are entitled to YES. Stalin, anyone?

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      1. I think our Scots/Scottish languages would be better in the next print. Or Scots and Gaelic? I speak Scots a bit and no Gaelic but it would be better to include imho.

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  5. This is a great idea. I’ve posted to friends the please sign for the 100.000 but people are wary of opening the message in case its a scam. I hope its taken up in the ways you’ve suggested.

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  6. Tried to pist a comment but it kept saying it was a duplicate (which it’s not). 

    I just wanted to tell you how potent this leaflet is. It actually made me cry for Scotland. An amazing piece of work. 

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    1. “ It actually made me cry for Scotland.”
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      Me too.

      The language of the ancient people who, courtesy of the Romans, gave Scotland its very name, is a bullet conspicuous by its absence.

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      1. ‘A bullet conspicuous by its absence! Aye, an’ ye dinnae hiv tae luik ower faur tae fin’ oot hoo’s that.

        Despite millions being ploughed into Gaelic medium broadcasting the language is dying a slow death along with the culture which once supported it. Here on the Isle of Skye you will only find it in daily use among SOME of the native Gaelic speaking population and even then you might have to go to a fank, a ceilidh or a religious denomination service to hear it expressed in its NATIVE form.

        Gaelic medium schools within the education service provides an opportunity to learn the language, however if it is not spoken in the home as a first language it is difficult for children to immerse in the culture which was once the bedrock of Gaidhlig.

        This is quite simply due to the fact that our (Gaelic) culture has been conspicuously eroded through the vast influx of incomers from outwith the Gaidhealtachd who bring with them their own preferred ‘customs’ to the detriment of the erstwhile cultural predomination within this region!

        Sadly the same applies tae oor ain Scots mither tongue, the fowk at Holyrood wha huid court hiv damned thair ain leid!

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  9. Good grief, cut the nit picking about language or any other subject. We need the hundred thousand signatures. Please let’s go for the jugular we can sort out everything else when we are free.

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    2. Harry, you can be in the communist party, or any other party for that matter and still join Liberation.Scot. I am ex-SNP, now ALBA, and in SALVO/ Liberation. The strength of Liberation lies in its belief in nonpartisan democracy with only INDEPENDENCE as its goal.

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    3. Yes Liberation.Scot is strictly non party political and will never contest elections against the SNP or anyone else. It is solely focussed on generating support for Independence. Many members are also members of the SNP, ALBA, GREENS, ISP and even a few from LAbour, evEn a Tory. Plenty of members who belong to no party,

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  12. This is really excellent work Iain. I’ve just printed of multiple copies which I will now frame and send as presents to friends and family.

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  13. I would suggest that people print off some QR codes so anyone signing can take the code with them and sign up the people next to them in the stadium. Any Celtic or Rangers supporters reading this? Imagine the code whisking its way around 60,000!!

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  15. who is this seeking to convert? There’s 45% + of us who already get the historic, cultural and economic wrongs. We have a vision of something better. But what about the 15% who are sympathetic but who will be motivated by personal financial risk. That leaflet doesn’t speak to them or persuade them. Sone might even suggest that it perpetuates the “too wee, etc.” myth.

    if you don’t look too closely , and most of the 15% look at headlines it reminds me of the old browned copies of the Paisley Daily Express revealed when an old carpet was lifted.

    The 15% need to be bought, not encouraged by a collective moan.

    the SNP has 15 months to win Independence by dissolving the Union following a Yes vote in the GE. that should be the sole focus of everyone who wants to see a Scottish state. Otherwise we’ve not only dropped the ball. We’ve punctured it with no hope of an early replacement.

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    1. Graeme, the SNP had its day or rather several days. By accident and/or design, it screwed up.

      There’s a new zeitgeist (we already had the shite heist)

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    2. “The 15% need to be bought”

      No they don’t.

      There will always be a higher bidder and/or a more outrageous liar. You cannot buy loyalty or purchase prosperity.

      What you can do to that large segment that are financially motivated is remind them about the future dismal outlook for the UK whilst at the dame time shame and enrage them about the untruths they swallowed in 2014:

      1. Project Scary

      Scare the bajesus out of them if we stay in the UK by emphasising:
      • Inflation – it’s in double digits so watch out for your savings
      • Cost of living – better swap Waitrose and M&S for Lidl and Aldi
      • Energy Bills – you think they are high now, just wait till next winter
      • Pensions – these are lowest in Western Europe and will go lower in real terms
      • Foodbanks – there will be more of these with less items in stock

      That should assist in the conversion of waverers and the undecided.

      2. Project Black

      Highlight the promises of the BT campaign of 2014 with their lying outcomes:
      • EU Membership Guarantee v Brexit
      • HMRC Jobs v Cumbernauld Closures
      • T8 Clyde-built Frigates: 13 Contracts v 8 Orders
      • The Vow v EVEL
      • Home Rule/Federalism/Devo-Max v Smith Commission Whitewash

      That should impact those that have some regret about voting NO in the referendum.

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      1. You don’t bid or lie, you put in their pockets before they vote.

        How many regretted voting NO? Given the passage of time many have died or emigrated and many have become 18 or arrived so the franchise is somewhat different. Those not committed politically will assess the risk.

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      2. What is offering money if it is not a bid?

        Of course it is – it’s a bid to convince the unthinking, unprincipled and unscrupulous to vote YES.

        They’ll just says ‘thanks very much, mugs’.

        And then vote NO.

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      3. bidding and giving are not the same. If they don’t vote yes then that’s democracy, at least we’ll have shown them how their income can be increased significantly. If we still can’t get a majority to vote yes then provided that the U.K. government doesn’t end the devolved power , it will still improve people’s lives . The more our economy and incomes diverge from the rest of the U.K. the more the movement towards independence develops and in time it will happen.

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      4. It is important how you realise the restoration of Scotland’s full self government.

        If you buy it then that can be temporary, easily reversed by a pro-Union movement in a future new Scottish state with promised bribes of future prosperity.

        You need to win the emotional argument – that way it is becomes ingrained in the national psyche and is passed on from generation to generation.

        There needs to be pride in knowing who you are, where you come from and what your values are for Independence to be permanent.

        There is no pride in being bought.

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      5. There is no good or bad time to gain independence. A gradualist approach won’t cut it now. if you don’t believe that Scotland will be so much better economically, socially and environmentally than in the Union very quickly after the dissolution then that suggests that many who say that aren’t prepared to make it happen. Unless the U.K. abandoned the dominance of the City of London it will never develop an economic model which can make a better offering than what Scotland can make. As life in Scotland will develop even more in a different direction than England than now not least in tv and media and our own currency the lingering fondness for the Union will recede very quickly

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      6. I didn’t say anything about a “good or bad time to gain Independence”.

        I did say it was important – crucial – HOW Scotland returns to nation state status.

        Your argument seems to be “It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for” money alone.

        Now that won’t cut it.

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      7. but only for the 15%, which is somewhat more than the percentage of the people who had the legal power to sign the Declaration of Arbroath.

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      8. People vote in line with their ‘values’, Graeme, not necessarily for what is in their best interest. Independence/liberation is priceless, it has no price. The price of colonialism is enslavement.

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      9. “but only for the 15%, which is somewhat more than the percentage of the people who had the legal power to sign the Declaration of Arbroath.”

        So bribing 15% of today’s population for transitory gain is a more noble action than that of the barons who signed the 1320 letter which sought the recognition of Scotland’s freedom as a matter of principle?

        I don’t buy your bribe.

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      1. That’s part of the pitch to buy the votes to dissolve the Union. I reckon I’m close to the 50% support now within the party.

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    4. The SNP dropped the ball in 2015 and has wasted all the years since. Believing the SNP will ever get independence is like believing the moon is a bowl of custard.

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    1. The problem with that argument is that Norway through a combination of innovative design and consistent investment managed to ride the storm. When you look at the evidence provided by Stuart Bannatyne that argues Calmac have been tied to the wrong ferry designs for decades it suggests that home based stupidity and outdated views lacking vision to opportunity also played a massive role.

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      1. For a brief wee moment in time before it all finally ended a couple of guys who worked at Kvaerna Govern were ma whisky and beer customers and after their shift they liked to try all the malt (not all in one night) they lived in the hotel I worked in. Nice guys and I still remember their names Sven fae Norway and Chris fae Newcastle but wasn’t that a Norwegian company?

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      2. Scottish shipbuilding didn’t exist at the time of the union. The shipbuilding industry didn’t really start until the 19th century.

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  18. Given that I’m always happy to hear Gaelic spoken and to see it on signage etc., a reasonable question might be: why haven’t I tried to learn the language? The short-answer is: had morning-one Gaelic been phoneticised on behalf of those of us brought-up hearing predominantly Scots spoken around us, I may well have done. (Classes, for many reasons, aren’t an option for everyone.) It will be argued that the phoneticisation of Gaelic would somehow dilute or harm the language; but surely not at the morning-one stage? When children are learning to speak, if they can’t grasp the sounds of the words being used around them first-of-all, my presumption is that they’ll never be able to speak the language. There are good reasons, I’m sure, why written Gaelic has so many of what non-Gaelic speakers might consider to be “superfluous” “confusing” unsounded letters, when all they initially require to enthuse them is to be given the sound/pronunciation of the given word and its meaning. But then, what do I know?

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    2. Erich

      I am old enough to have contemporaries who started primary school as monoglot Gaelic speakers. Despite the best endeavours of our wonderful Scottish education system in the 1950s to destroy it, their spoken Gaelic for the most part survives intact. Sad to say, many lost esteem for the mother tongue, having gone through life illiterate in it. A tragic failure to transmit Gaelic to their children followed.

      Would English-language orthography have helped those who wanted to read and write their native tongue? Not if the experience of Manx, a sister language of Scottish Gaelic (and Irish), is it anything to go by. The last native Manx speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974.

      Scholars in both Scotland and Ireland (Jackson, O’ Rahilly) have been utterly damning about Manx orthography – “a monstrosity” and “an abomination”. Even if a standard, agreed Scots orthography existed, would it fare better in providing a phonetic scheme for Gaidhlig either at the popular or academic level? The following link might give you some insight as to the likely answer. There is much more serious scholarly work online.

      http://www.akerbeltz.org/index.php?title=A_Word_on_Manx_Spelling

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    3. There’s an app that we can download and there’s a few gaelic teachers on YouTube free of charge. I found a guy fae Canada giving lessons. Initially I was thinking because the Scottish government had emailed education staff to enrol in courses a few years ago, the problem was it was at night and travel. There’s Smart boards in a lot of school classrooms and a way to do it could have been linking up via the technology that doesn’t cost the earth as they already spent installing thetechnology. Obviously the person teaching it would have been paid.
      It could be done for Scots too. Not everything has to cost lots of money and have red tape as well as excuses as to why it’s not possible. Fact is we weren’t given the opportunity as children to learn it.
      I get how those who are gaelic speakers might feel a wee bit miffed at it not being included in the flyer but I think it’s best to just apologise and admit that it should include both but it wasn’t on purpose. Perhaps the Scots speakers felt that there’s currently nae provision or legislation for Scots? 😄 It’s no a battle the pick a hill oan tae die.

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      1. Now if we were to join together to tell the government how we aren’t satisfied that they denied us this opportunity and forced us to learn English and we feel cheated and they must put it right, it’s better than arguing amongst ourselves and focusing on the actual culprits who also did what’s on the flyer.

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      2. Gaelic is recognised officially but Scots isn’t. Clearly it is a scandal that Scots isn’t recognised at all so that is presumably why it, and not Gaelic, got a line on the leaflet.

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      3. We should have used the term Scottish languages I accept that. Still we can’t be perfect no matter how hard we try. I still think and given the overall reaction, the leaflet is a cracker!

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      4. I agree with you. Just trying to keep the peace. Goodness knows that it’s not easy when there’s been a lot going on. I think that people are just sensitive because it’s about preservation of who they are and naebody wants to feel left out. Reality is though we are all in this together. It’s a fab flyer. I am always grateful for the efforts that everyone makes so thanks.

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      5. MacDonalds in Waverly offers a menu option in Welsh but no Scots or Gaelic – and not a murmur from our “nationalist” SG …

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  19. I think years of under-investment destroyed Scotland’s ship building. Ancient facilities and thinking didn’t help either. I was there.

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  20. When I opened this post on my ‘phone, the preview went down to “…more suitable” then had an advert about getting rid of belly fat. I had a chuckle at that one.

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  21. The YES Movement of 2012/14 was an incredible bottom up driven social construct. The communication between groups and material pooling was outstanding. The stalls up and down the Country were packed with activists and well wishers.

    The week after the Referendum Peter Murrell exercised his copyright on the YES logo, all emails and phone contacts that had been used. The YES campaign was a sham, an SNP front on a leash.

    The People had become too powerful. The uncontrolled push for Indy was not being harnessed by the SNP.

    That week after the Referendum was the pivot point. One Party ended the loose bonds of a Social construct and imposed Party Politics. They then removed Democracy from the Party machine.

    We need to recover that Grassroots drive. We need to end the manipulation by Political Parties.

    Independence is the only driver. Independence candidates the only way forward.
    We have had one blocker since 2014….we still have the same blocker…..THE SNP.

    The Murrells betrayed Scotland and they imposed a fix to ensure a rigid Party harness remained in place.
    Humza the puppet will keep Scotland divided.

    The Enemy is within our own ranks.

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  22. @cynicusinexile

    Thank you for your kind reply and the Manx link. It seems that I’m not completely all alone, regarding orthography, anyway. You very interestingly write: “Sad to say, many lost esteem for the mother tongue, having gone through life illiterate in it. A tragic failure to transmit Gaelic to their children followed. Sad, indeed!

    I’ve read that when Padraig Pearse et al visited the Galwegian Gaeltacht in the early twentieth-century in search of native Irish-speakers, they were asked by the same speakers what interest they could possibly have in a language that nobody used and few could understand, but a handful of miles up the road. Thankfully, Pearse and his fellow cultural-nationalists were in possession of an altogether more revolutionary analysis of the situation, so remained undeterred. Those Irish speakers, it appears, had also “lost esteem for the mother tongue.” But that’s what colonialism, in concert with its many agencies, including the education-system, always produces and looks like to the eyes of the colonised, no matter where they may be.

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    1. I remember people telling me that their Gaelic speaking parents despaired that they were “like dugs”. They understood words but couldn’t speak.
      When you wipe out a language, you destroy a culture.

      Our entire culture has been under attack since 1707 in an attempt to create “Greater England.

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      1. Scotland has two indigenous cultures/languages, Scots and Gaelic. Both languages should be taught to their respective groups given that language is a human right as well as the basis of our identity and culture. Scots speakers remain deprived by the state of learning thair ain langage in thair ain laund.

        In Singapore the teaching of Mandarin, Tamil and Malay is mandatory for each respective ethnic group and, as in other former colonies, English is also taught and used there as an ‘administrative’ language; hence the language a people speak in the hoose or playgrund is learned and respected. If a language is not taught it is not respected and will eventually die.

        The key factor is respect for ‘peoples’ culture and languages, not to force another language on them in thair ain laund which is not their own, and not to subordinate or deprive a fowk o thair ain mither tongue in thair ain laund, which is all too often the root of inequality in a society.

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      1. You could nail it to the heid of Useless for all the good that will do … the SNP leadership are indeed the enemy within. Electing them is just electing the dark state.

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      2. Going to add:
        Voting for the SNP because you believe in independence is like voting for the Greens because you care about the environment. That is something we should put on a bill board 😦

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  25. How about the chieftains sons were schooled in the south to change their mindset from protector and provider for their family to a landowner who’s land had to make a profit (in this new industrial age) and deem the clans people as economically unviable helping to justify the clearances to make way for sheep and profit. And we shouldn’t forget, up until recently, the children of Scotland were punished (corporal) for speaking their native tongue at school. Colony or what!

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  26. Sorry Iain, I should have said “Very Powerful” and for it not to hit the mark one would have to be callous, heartless and a poor excuse for a human being. Excellent and thank you!

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      1. Thanks Iain. It should say “is ignored/side-lined/shelved/set aside”, not “replaced”, because it continues to exist. That fact is key. “replaced” suggests its been struck down, which of course it hasnt. We must be precise in getting the facts out.

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  28. Replaced seems to me to be the exactly correct word.
    If something exists but is never referred to or spoken about BUT something else is used in it’s place IT has been REPLACED.
    All this hot air and Graeme McCormick#s infantile and naive convert the 15% is just nonsense.
    His AGFRR would need Royal assent to be implemented here in Scotland and as we only have an English King that will never happen. Also the Scottish Government do not seem to be up for Land Reform or implementing a Tax system which would get rid of poverty.
    Graeme’s system is fantastic but I fear the Establishment and their SNP puppets will not permit it to see the light of day.
    Scots Sovereignty is the best way forward as no election will ever gain our FREEDOM.

    P.S. when I was young my father used to tune the radio in to Gaelic language stations.
    One day I was listening in and heard the words “ROOF TRUSSES” spoken. When I asked the old boy why he said there was no gaelic word that ended it for me. I thought perhaps mistakenly “why learn a dead language”

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    1. ROOF TRUSSES = CINN-TAIGHE or TRUSAICHEAN MULLAICH.

      Seems English had to borrow its own terminology here, as explained from an online etymological dictionary:

      ‘TRUSS (n.)
      c. 1200, “collection of things bound together,” from Old French trousse, torse “parcel, package, bundle,” of uncertain origin, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *torciare “to twist,” from Late Latin torquere “to twist” (from PIE (supposed indo-European) root *terkw- “to twist”). Sense of “framework for supporting a roof or bridge” is first recorded 1650s.’

      Scottish Gaelic is not a “dead language”, but it is certainly struggling to keep a roof over its head. If Scotland refuses to shelter it, then Scotland effectively perpetuates the work of Butcher Cumberland, of the Duke of Sutherland, and of all of that heartless London-centric ilk, burning Gaelic’s home down round it’s ears and reducing it to refugee, even “outlaw” status in its own country. How can we expect speakers of a language which was lethally persecuted, which was banished from education for so very long, generations forced into illiteracy and until not so long ago whose children were punished for speaking it, how can we expect socially traumatised speakers to nonetheless have recondite urban terms dancing on the tips of their tongues? Christ said “Chan iadsan a tha slàn aig a bheil feum air lighiche, ach iadsan a tha tinn.” (“They that are healthy have no need of the physician, but they that are sick.“) Universal Imperial English does not need our help. Gaelic certainly does and is crying out. And moreover it is simply ridiculous that the learning of a second language for so many Scots becomes an either-or issue. Let’s think more like the multilingual Europeans among whom Scots historically moved so comfortably. A linguistic Amazon rain-forest has been almost incinerated in Scotland. But not quite completely yet. It may revive and blossom still if what remains is tended well. We are the only stewards of Scottish Gaelic. Let us each become a planted tree, a thriving rainforest together. Aloud with our own uniquely meaningful sounds which had almost fallen silent for ever.

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