Dougie

NYT keeps clueing “nae” as some variety of “Scottish denial”, today it’s “Dundee denial”. In Scots, “nae” is only used in place of no where it’s used to express a quantity. When used as a denial the word is “naw”. As in “huv ye goat ony bananas in the day?” [have you got any bananas in today?] “Naw, we’ve goat nae bananas at aw” [no, we’ve got no bananas at all]. While in English the two versions are the same word, in Scots, and by extension in the hybrid Scots/English spoken in Dundee and other places, they are two different words and nobody would respond to a yes/no question with “nae”.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “nae” does not mean “no” as in the answer to a yes/no question, it only means “no” in the context of quantities. In Scots, “naw” is the answer to a yes/no question. “Have you got any Irn Bru?” “Naw, ah’ve got nae Irn Bru at aw”

Couldn’t agree more with Caitlin here, there is no such thing as AI Art.