Sir, - Okay, I enjoy a joke the same as the next, but Dr Bob Purdie's letter on Ulster Scots (September 17th) was really over the top. The poor old unionists are down and out at the moment and they can do without this cruel, patronising humour.
It was a joke, right?
In the remote possibility that it wasn't, I would like to add in fluent Ulster Scots/Belfastese: och thon glipe's talkin keak. - Yours, etc.,
John Rooney,
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Belfast 15.