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Today in "verify absolutely all information you see on the Internet," a Reddit user has alleged that *most* of the notorious "Scots" language Wikipedia was written by a single user who, um, does not actually know any Scots.

If this is accurate, the entire Scots Wikipedia is basically the new "English As She Is Spoke*."

reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments

(*My god, if you haven't seen this absolute literary treasure... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_)

@zebratron2084 ... All right, but isn't this *precisely* in the Scottish tradition of the Ossian poems?

[ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian and yeah it's a little more complicated than that but still. ]

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