"Lairnin' Ulster Scots is Fun with Jim Shannon" normally features on the Friday blog when the Assembly grinds to a halt, but since I'm off work tomorrow, it's been moved forward a day.
This week Jim is talking about the Transformation Fund, which is the money required to support the development of professionalism in childcare and early education. I'm sure you'll agree that it's a fascinating topic to read about in English, well it's all the more exciting in Ulster Scots.
The reason for the speechmarks for the first paragraph is that the DUP MLA starts off 'quoting' an official document which I presume he translated.
Word of the day has to be "kent". Ken, as we learnt last week means 'know'. Adding a 't' to the end transforms it into the academically splendid 'cognitive'. Thus 'no kent' is clearly non-cognitive - it's all very logical.
Here's this week's homework - see how you get on:
"It micht be that tha benefits o' investin in weancare an afore schuill larning cud be a muckle better investmunt in larning than bein din at aa' later stage, gien that aa' lerge pert o' baith kent an no kent skills show themsels afore weans stert schuill."
This wus takin' frae aa' paper oan tha benefits o' early weancare in comparisin tae coast facter an is plain tae see that tae stert aa' wean aff oan tha richt fut is maist diffinently mony weel spent.
I was whinging last week about Jim's inconsistencies last week, which is admittedly a reflection of my ignorance rather than a short-coming in the dialect/language*, but fortunately I have the good news that help is at hand.
For today as the Ulster Scots Academy Consultation was discussed at the Committee for Culture, Arts, and Leisure, it emerged that there are plans to establish a permanent base in one of the local universities [they haven't decided which one yet], with outreach centres for the places where they speak the lingo [they didn't say where that was] and, best of all an Ulster Scots dictionary.
That puts an end to any suspicion that the allocation of £14 million (which was mirrored by an equal payment to Irish) from the GFA was a waste of tax payers' money then.
*delete according to whether you prefer hurling or shinty
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