“What happened in Scotland in the 1960s and the 1970s and what laid the foundation for the enormous creative achievements of the 1980s was the liberation of the voice. The Scottish voice declared its independence. The liberation of the voice was at first the acceptance of and an assertion of the vernacular. But the real liberation of the voice came not from the assertion of the rights of the vernacular itself, but from the assertion of the right to move without boundaries between the vernacular and standard English, between the demotic and the literary.” ScotlandLiteraryVernacular1970s1980sScottish CultureStandard EnglishDemoticScottish Voice Book:Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture Source: Out of History: Narrative Paradigms in Scottish and British Culture