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The Scottish language crops
up in quantul research, live software applications (apps) sharing,
formally in rocket testing defence tech, and a key term in computer
gaming also digital connections and when software apps go wrong.
"Bevel" -- Digital Design software tools adding depth and
dimension to 2D elevations like text/shapes creating angles edges for
extra realism in graphics, modelling and motion to simulate physical
material or raised surfaces; in traditional Scots and older Scottish
dialect bevil orbevil, bevvel, means a lump, surface unevenness,
historically a strong blow knocking some off balance, the OED claiming
the word is now obsolete - but not in digital!
"Loch" -- Computer science key concept preventing simultaneous
and often damaging access to data by multiple threads of execution, the
University of the Highlands & Islands (UHI) invites browsers to "dive
into the research topics of 'Loch Computer'" reflecing the meaning of
remoteness and connectedness in the digital era; a Scots, Gaelic term
for a lake or landlocked sea inlet with Wikipedia reporting term
subsequently borrowed into English.
"Haste" -- Acronym for a defence program, a term in computer game
mechanics. also HASTE (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron)
rocket testing defence technologies, used as cautionary idiom "haste
makes waste"; "haste ye back" represents the traditional farewell as in
return safely, also "hast" with Scots Language Forum describing hastes
as hurrying up ie employing excessive speed or urgency of movement in
action.
"Boorach" or bourach -- Wiktionary
highlights an upsurge in this Scots word's popularity and usage
especially on platforms X and Facebook also a chaotic software project,
a botched IT rollout, severe system failure; traditionally describing a
mess, muddle, a state of total confusion, reports The Scots Magazine.
"Oan" -- Social media abbreviation changing the subject of
conversation or post like anyway/moving on, also Open Access Network
with OAN Learning, for example, representing a powerful engine driving a
suite of software solutions, reports oAppsNet, where it enables powerful
data automation and machine learning, also live App Share; the BBC
highlighted the phrase "taps aff or taps oan" quoting a senior NHS
health director believing Scotland might have to rethink its going about
with one's top off in the prolonged sunshine!
"Quantum" — Hub for research in computing and mechanics quantum
tech uses physics at the ultra-atomic level to transform technology,
techUK identifies it as both key emerging and transformative in terms of
the UK's long-term digital and economic future; used historically in
Scots Law to refer to amount of damages awarded to a successful party in
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