"Whit& #39;s yer thoughts on independence?"

"Whit& #39;s du mean?"

"D& #39;ye agree that Scotland should be independent?"

"I dinna kaen whit du means. Agree wi who?"

"Agree wi the folk campaigning for Scotland to be its ain country."

"Oh, hadna heard o yon. Best o luck ta them."
Cannae help but feel that she& #39;s probably the maist content person in Scotland rn
The encounter also highlighted that to a lot of Shetlanders, Scottish folk are "them", not "us". Another example o this is when I asked a man in Scallowa his thoughts on indy & he pointed to the ruined castle and said "Yon& #39;s whit happened the last time the Scots tried rulin us"
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