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COX’S ROSE-TINTED GLASSES I feel that Brian Cox’s comments on the changing face of Dundee [City of Survival, July 2014] reveal a romanticised view of the past. Yes, many buildings should not have been demolished, yet many community buildings, such as tenements, were in a poor, sometimes dangerous, condition. The 1960s concrete Overgate, in hindsight, was a bad idea but
it was of its time. As for the ‘move towards social engineering’, which supposedly broke up communities, this moved families like mine to the new housing schemes where shared toilets gave way to modern plumbing and facilities. It also gave us gardens with plenty of green space so that we
could form new communities. Angie Rodger, Dundee
BOBBY BURNS?! I am appalled that in your Welcome [June 2014] you refer to ‘Rabbie Burns’, thereby promoting an offensive stylisation of the name of Robert Burns. Burns generally used his full
given name ‘Robert’ throughout his life. He would somtimes accept or use, particularly for poetic purposes, shortened or colloquial variants (Rob, Rab, Robin etc), but never adopted Rabbie, a slang variant that appeared in the mid 19th century and has been used by those who do not know any better ever since. It is strange that this form is common in Scotland yet we mock Americans who refer to ‘Bobby Burns’. Would we refer to Meg Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Chic, Willie Wallace, Bob the Bruce or Eck Salmond? Please give Burns the same
respect you give to other headliners. Apply a diminutive if you must but please use a form of his name with which he was comfortable in his lifetime. Bill Dawson, Alloa
CYBER SCHNYBER Your Welcome [July 2014] treats what you call the Cybernats rather harshly. I hold no truck with personal abuse, but much of their ire is stoked up by endless scare articles, such as the recent ‘Yes vote will delay cure for cancer’ in two national papers. The Cybernats aren’t ‘leading the way’, but simply responding to the tide of misinformation heaped on us by a press that is broadly unsympathetic to independence. Frank McCallum, Facebook
STOP KIDOLOGY I was saddened to see the word ‘kids’ on the cover of last month’s issue. Kids are young goats, not children. With your worldwide readership, Scottish Field should be promoting more nationalistic words such as ‘bairns’, or at the very least the correct description (ie: ‘children’). Please do not become too Americanised. Nicholas Ferguson, Devon
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