> The only thing he managed to do was to convince people that scots isn’t a real language. I would say rather that the fact that Scottish people did not stand

> The only thing he managed to do was to convince people that scots isn’t a real language. I would say rather that the fact that Scottish people did not stand up a substantial Scots Wikipedia until this story blew up indicates that it recently became important that Scots is definitely a real language. I'm not gonna fault some 12-year-old nerd with a book of Burns if he wanders in, place is empty, and no one's really minding the store.