[Scottish] Gaelic Spellchecker

[Kyle Gordon]

J.R. Seago¹ wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 February 2007 12:15, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
>   
>> I don't understand this argument.  A 1:4 Welsh:English speaking ratio
>> surely deserves more attention than a 1:86 Scots Gaelic:English ratio?
>> At a per-head rate, the WLB gets ~ £19, given the figures you and others
>> have quoted (£13.7m/0.7m people).  The GLB gets ~ £75 (4.409m/0.058m)
>> per head!  Where's the problem here?
>>     
>
> Scotland 5,062,011 population getting £4,409,000 = £0·88 approx. per head 
> for linguistic and cultural preservation and promotion.
>
> Wales 2,903,085 population getting £13,700,000 = £4·72 approx. per head for 
> linguistic and cultural preservation and promotion. 5·36 times as much per 
> head as the language and culture of Scotland gets, when it could be argued 
> that as one in four already speaks the language that it is not as much in 
> need of preservation as the culture and language of a nation where only 
> only one in eighty-six of the population speak the minority language. I 
> would argue that the spending needs to be concentrated where the need is 
> greatest, in Scotland. The Welsh have got the funding and recognition, in 
> my opinion, because an element of their cultural and linguistic grouping 
> is prepared to commit violence and illegality to get their cause the 
> news/media coverage, "...A hundred protesters blockaded the entrance to a 
> supermarket in Bangor, North Wales on Saturday 27 January and three 
> protesters were arrested for suspected criminal damage".
>   
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/new

Kyle