Didn’t use the word

“I refer to the recent correspondence re ‘platties’ and ‘pletties’,” emails Bill Greig. “I was brought up in the east end of Dundee and, like your native Lochee correspondent, I never ever heard the word ‘plattie’.

“You lived on a ‘plettie’ and you played on a ‘plettie’. You would have been laughed at and accused of being ‘toffeenosed’ if you used a word like ‘plattie’.”