The Scots are a dumb, diminutive and illiterate tribe on the fringes of Europe – we all know that. One of the chieftains of Scotland is Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in his waning days of a troubled political career.
The depth of Scottish illiteracy is demonstrated in a hand-written letter from the challenged PM to the mother of a fallen soldier. The bereaved English mother had to endure this saga of premier deficiency:
He addressed the letter to a Mrs James, misspelling the name Janes. Mr Brown then made four(!) other spelling mistakes in the 7-line letter: greatst for greatest, condolencs for condolences, you instead of your, and colleagus for colleagues.
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