Wikipedia Scotland

I just noticed that Wikipedia is now available in Scots.

Say what you will about Wikipedia – sure it is plagued by various problems, strange spats over entries and accuracy among them – but it has been so fervently adopted by so many, and converted into so many languages, that one has to take pause at that fact.

Always one to delight in some lovely linguistics-meets-computation analysis, I am pleased to note that to search on http://sco.wikipedia.org is to “rake” – which conjures the image of someone using a rake to comb through detritus, eventually finding their answer.

Dinna haud yer wheesht, haud yer ain! (If you don’t know what that means, it’s time for you to brush up…)