...and now for something completely off the wall...

[Richmond]

"this person has possibly done more damage to the Scots language than 
anyone else in history. They engaged in cultural vandalism on a hitherto 
unprecedented scale. Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in 
the world. Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots 
is a horribly mangled rendering of English rather than being a language 
or dialect of its own, all because they were exposed to a mangled 
rendering of English being called Scots by this person and by this 
person alone"

Indeed.

On 28.08.20 17:59, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by 
> one American teenager who can't speak Scots
>
> "A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a 
> hamlet but smawer than a toun, wi a population rangin frae a few 
> hunder tae a few thoosand (sometimes tens o thoosands)."
>
> https://boingboing.net/2020/08/27/almost-every-article-on-the-sc.html
> https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/5724
>