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Scottish Language goes all 'Digital Native'
Chapter 10 - Take that Selfie!


"Caddie" -- CD, DVD, hard drive container-device securing removable component, tray or mechanism; deriving from the French military cadet pronouced cah-day, Wikipedia says also spelled cadie was an 18th century Scottish urban occupation to run errands, now as Scottish Golf History highlights caddie became known as a general-purpose porter now caddie who carries clubs for a golfer.

"Aye" -- AI pun in custom software, web solutions and enterprise-size systems; Lexistry says meaning yes in Scots as one of the most ancient words still in common use also always.

"Polis" -- Open-source software and realtime AI-powered systems analysing public opinion; Threads Galeic for police pronounced polis, with Electric Scotland describiong a "muckle strappin polis" from the poem by J K Annand.

"Jaggie" -- Stair-stepped or jagged edge digital images/graphic displayed at low resolution; Stooryduster tsays translates as in it's not painful just a little bit prickly," a Dictionaries of the Scots language word of the week meaning sharp, pointed, piercing , a stinging as in nettles.

"Selfie" -- Prominent tech word in smartphone/camera LCD monitor used in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc., as a self-portrait photo/visual representation taken by mobile phone; BBC reported the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year has evolved as tag in mainstream term for self-portraiture with a cluster of "selfies" was uncovered in Scottish archives dating as far back as the 1900s.

"Dinna" -- LinkedIn describes it as reputed to be first-of-a-kind agentic fully-integrated marketing platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs/SMBs) DINNA is powered by artificial intelligence; The Scotsman word of the day as in phrase "dinna fash yersel" as in do not get annoyed or inconvenience somebody or something.


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