Letter: Learning Scots

THE report on Dundee's "distinctive dialect" (29 July) states that "studies have suggested strong links between speaking two languages… and resisting dementia".

By The Newsroom

Published 30th Jul 2010, 18:54 BST

Updated 30th Jul 2010, 23:41 BST

This is one of the many reasons for learning Scots, the language of which Dundonian is a dialect. Others rate the increase in social cohesion, self-expression and a sense of identity.

How else is a Scots person to be recognised if it is not that he or she knows Scots, in the same way as the French or German peoples are defined?

IAN WF FORDE

Causewayend Main Street

Scotlandwell, Kinross-shire

Dundee