Letter: Scotch wrath

Burns never wrote one single line in Scots (your report, 5 November). To him Scots were the people of Scotland. Scotch was the name of his language and on that, "I'll pledge my aith in guid braid Scotch."

I challenge anyone to produce one single instance where Burns calls his language "Scots". Scotch is also the name of the language I have spoken all my life. It is the name given by all those Scots in central Scotland as shown by Sir James Wilson in his definitive study of their dialects.

Robert Pate

Newton Stewart

Wigtownshire