[SCOT goes POP!] BREAKING: The Scotsman newspaper thinks its readers won't understand the word "stramash" and so translates it into English

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BREAKING: The Scotsman newspaper thinks its readers won't understand the word "stramash" and so translates it into English

I thought you might enjoy some light relief related to the recent difficulties in the Alba Party.  The Scotsman's article about Denise Findlay's departure offers the following purported quote from Alex Salmond's email to party members - 

"Although Yvonne deleted her tweets and apologised for her mistake, the online row continued."

The thing is, though, I received that email when it was sent, and I was sure Mr Salmond had used the word "stramash".  I doublechecked, and sure enough the Scotsman's quote was accurate apart from the fact that they had replaced "online stramash" with "online row".  This presumably means the Scotsman had made an editorial decision that its readers would not understand "stramash" as a non-English word and thus felt justified to translate it into English.

Surely even the poshest Scots in Morningside or wherever have encountered the word "stramash"?  Just who is the Scotsman's target audience these days?  You can imagine the conversation: "we'll look ridiculous if we add an explanatory note about what the word means, so best just to pretend he never said it..."

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Source: BREAKING: The Scotsman newspaper thinks its readers won't understand the word "stramash" and so translates it into English