TWITTER temporarily banned a columnist for The National after a misunderstanding involving Scots and autocorrect.
Ruth Wishart, who writes weekly for the Sunday National, had attempted to leave a complimentary message on a pretty innocuous picture of a dog named Stanley.
Musician Curtis Stigers had shared a photo of his Bernedoodle (a cross between a Bernese Mountain Dog and a Poodle).
“It’s Stanley’s first birthday today!” he wrote.
Ruth attempted to leave a kind message below, but all didn’t go to plan after an autocorrect mix up.
Instead of writing the Scots term “sonsie laddie”, Ruth found herself commenting: “So die laddie!”
So die laddie!
— ruth wishart (@ruth_wishart) February 16, 2022
The inadvertent message led to Ruth being temporarily banned from the social media site.
Fortunately the ban didn’t last long. Writing a few hours later, Ruth said: “Hello tweeters. I seem to be unbanned. How crass of me to use the auld Scots Tongue in a tweet.”
Hello tweeters. I seem to be unbanned. How crass of me to use the auld Scots Tongue in a tweet.
— ruth wishart (@ruth_wishart) February 16, 2022
She told The National: "I saw a pic of a really nice pooch on Twitter this morning and replied saying 'sonsie laddie'.
"Unfortunately Twitter autocorrected this to 'So Die Laddie!' and locked my account for violating their guidelines. I probably should have paid more attention before pressing tweet, but it was VERY early in the morning.
"I got David Pratt to tweet out my dilemma, as the last time I didn't tweet for a while a neighbour came round to make sure I wasn't lying behind the door getting eaten by the dug!
"Seems to have done the trick as I'm back on!"
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