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20th of February 2008
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Sir,
BAD LANGUAGE
It is spectacularly culturally insensitive of our Anglocentric Westminster Government that it is to introduce English tests for foreigners who plan to marry British citizens and settle in the UK.
What about the UK's other native languages: Gaelic in Scotland, Welsh in Wales and Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland? These languages are formally recognised in legislation pertaining to their countries (as equals with English in the case of Welsh) and their use is rightly promoted at considerable expense by the Scottish Parliament and Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies. It beggars belief that they should not be equally acceptable to English for those who wish to settle in our sceptred isles.
Sincerely,
John Eoin Douglas
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