Court papers full of errors due to difficulties with Scottish accent
                   
scotsman.com     May 12, 2008            

COURT cases could be thrown into chaos because workers employed to take notes can't understand the Scots accent, it was claimed yesterday. ... They said Scottish names such as Barlinnie have been wrongly transcribed as "Barrel Annie" and that words such as "libelled" and... [read full story]                    


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