I stand corrected by my good old Gunboat friend. Yes indeed, according to some researchers and contemporary accounts, Chic 'spoke English and Broad Scots very well,' though heavily accented and unintelligible to some. Perhaps a bit like 'Dundonian?' After all, when the Duke of Atholl finished his address at Glenfinnan and Charlie said 'Ah hink its aboot time fur a cup a' teh an' a peh,' would this have come across to the gathered clansmen as being a) heavily accented, b) unintelligible, c) good English, d) Broad Scots, or e) foreign, etc? Remember, there were no Funsters or taxi drehvers around back then to help them out!
It certainly seems that Charlie's communication skills, or lack of, have found their way to the upper halls of Tannadice, where yet again a cause has foundered due to lack of finance, or the funds being appropriated for matters unrelated to supporting the front-line troops?
Anyway, like the current teams' sharpshooting, this thread has gone way off target and Gunboat's timely reminder might just save the thread?