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title: ""[It then transpired, years later, that nearly all of the [Scots…"
date: 2021-02-19
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# "[It then transpired, years later, that nearly all of the [Scots…

*February 19, 2021 · Facebook*

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\"\[It then transpired, years later, that nearly all of the \[Scots language Wikipedia articles\] were written by one person: an American teenager who had never actually visited Scotland, but probably felt he was doing its people a great service. People who actually speak in the Scots dialect confirmed that the entire thing looked like a parody of how they actually spoke. It was just some autistic My Little Pony fan (seriously) editing articles in what they thought Scots was like.\"\
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