Well Arthur, I'm afraid I'm not a native of Perth, which is probably why I've got such a great sense of humour. My mother is Lancastrian, and my dad, who was working in Perth back in the sixties was a Londoner. We moved up when I was four, and back down when I was twelve, so I absorbed a lot of the culture. If I can get by reasonably well in "Scots Leid", it's because I had good teachers; the other kids at school. The best way to avoid being beaten up as a sassenach was to blend in. It's great chatting with you guys, it brings back a lot of memories. I exchanged a few emails a year or two ago with a guy who wants to preserve Scots; he wants to have road signs such as "Hud Oan! Bairns!", and a newspaper and t.v. broadcasts in Scots. His funding is a fraction of that given to to the Gaelic language, so heilanders can blether oot their Erse. Here's to the humourless folk of Perth!
