Grim.
Across Scotland, children were given the belt and humiliated for speaking Scots, Gàidhlig, Orcadian, Shetlandic...
Up into the 1970s.
And people wonder why our mither tongue languages are in decline
- the wirds hae bin beaten oot o wir maws for decades.
Across Scotland, children were given the belt and humiliated for speaking Scots, Gàidhlig, Orcadian, Shetlandic...
Up into the 1970s.
And people wonder why our mither tongue languages are in decline
- the wirds hae bin beaten oot o wir maws for decades.
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Nick Lloyd
School book belonging to a 12-year-old. Village near Tolosa, Basque Country, 1966. "In school I must not speak Basque" 1,000 (one thousand) lines.
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