Archive - Perambulations

Scots and Health inequality

In which I correlate census data about long-term illness and Scots speaking and try to find the hidden variable.

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Depictions of Scots speaking on TV

In which I continue a public debate and propose some objective measures for determining if dialogue is Scots or Not

Jun 23 •

Equal respect in literacy

In which I unfairly pick on Dundee's Libraries to make point about how difficult it will be give Scots and English equal respect

Jun 16 •

May 2025

The British Nationality Act 1981

In which politicking occurs and reading up about citizenship criteria has been done

May 19 •

Library acquisitions revisited

In which I deal with crippling self-doubt with a randomised control trial

May 14 •

A quick post-script to the speak-only and read-onlys

In which I stumble across something somewhat meaningful about people who speak Scots without reading it and read it without speaking it

May 13 •

Introducing: a Parallel Corpus of Government Texts in Scots and English

In which I describe a cool new website, if you think Scots and corpus linguistics is cool.

May 7 •

April 2025

The relationship between the Scots language and political support

In which I share some graphs

Apr 24 •

Emergent taxonomy of literary genres in Scots writing

In which we analyse the popular genres of Scots writing, and then list all the the adult fiction books we've found

Apr 14 •

March 2025

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