2: A Very Corrupt Dialect | The Mother Tongue

Duration: 29'18''

Synopsis

Billy KAY examines the roots of prejudice against Lowland Scots from the 1700s onwards in interviews with academics and native Scots speakers and by means of dramatised inserts illustrates the course of the language's fortunes

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