Can you speak 'Scots' Aye Can or Aye Can't?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/62u7b9j

I didn't realise that there are problems with some over the Scottish Census Form?

Perhaps the powers that be could also demand that all Call Centres should speak the Queen's English?

[JackDiamond]

// Do you consider yourself English or British?' //

Mancunian ........... sorted

[THECORBYLOON]

A few years ago at work I said something was squint and they hadn't a clue what I meant .

[annie0000]

isn't squint universal then? Skew wiff (sp?) tends to get people puzzled.

[pretty_snowdrop]

I'm not scottish and i could understand most of what was written under 'can you read Scots'. I'd always presumed it was a dialect rather than a unique language.
I am from Yorkshire and surely by the same logic we can say we are Yorkshire speakers but it doesn't seem to be mentioned on the English census.

[THECORBYLOON]

It seems not, they thought it was used only for an eye

[hc4361]

The Scottish dialect is no harder or easier to understand than the Geordie accent.
Unless it is Gaelic, which is a language entirely of its own.

[scotman]

I left the 'Scots' question alone as I have no idea how well I cope with it. I speak, write, read etc English very well.

[Sir Alec]

I do object when a form tells me that I am British. If it says "other", I write English. Why shouldn't I be proud of the fact?

[tinkerbell23]

Aye a cin speak scots, coz am scottish :0) lol. X