Please, no nightingales in Scotland?

This is one of ‘our’ occasional and not much read odd posts. Serious-minded readers should move on quickly and avert their eyes.

I’m not a twitcher but in my early years followed my grandad’s interest in the birds.

When I heard of the ‘row’ over naming another Glasgow hospital, a part of my brain, not often consulted, inserted the thought that nightingales are foreign to Scotland. The above line, I think, is on the money:

‘It’s a’ very gude but I wad na gie the wheeple of a whaup for a’ the nightingales that ever sang’

Quite.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=c4VHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA252&lpg=PA252&dq=scotland+official+languages+scots+nightingale&source=bl&ots=qbsQKRWLq4&sig=ACfU3U0w0W7WWY3raFm10JKn1-k5sgtI-w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjHz5TKx8voAhVjShUIHU6EDvYQ6AEwEnoECAsQKQ#v=onepage&q=scotland%20official%20languages%20scots%20nightingale&f=false

Readers are invited to name the whaup if they can.

While on the business of naming, I have joined the ‘row’ with these suggestions:

Glasgow Airport to be renamed after French war hero and Celtic footballer, ‘Charlie the Goal International Airport’.

‘Derry to be renamed Londonderry.’

10 thoughts on “Please, no nightingales in Scotland?”

  2. Good morning John. The new Birmingham hospital should not have been called “Nightingale” because 2 hospitals with mostly the same names adds to the risk of UK institutions muddling data, logistics etc etc between the two. Congratulations to the Scottish Government for using common sense by choosing a different name for the Scottish NHS’s new hospital, and for educating folk in Scotland about one of our distinguished forebears.

    Once again, many thanks from me for all your great work on this site, congratulations on your increased readership – and above all, keep safe and well!

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