It had more to do with the realisation that Scots and English had diverged to the point where they were no longer easily mutually intelligible.

Telegraph View: The Scots and the English diverge on many things, but they share many more.

The Scots and the English diverge on many things, but they share many more, and each would be diminished by cutting the ties that bind the various nations of the United Kingdom together.

If language differences can appear in one generation, it is only to be expected that the English used by Shakespeare four hundred years ago will diverge markedly from the English used today.

Mrs. Iman, who lost a husband and son in 1971, also said Bangla, which is what Bangladeshis call their version of the Bengali language, is drifting away from the Bengali of Calcutta, in some of the same ways that British and American English have diverged.