Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million ...
AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...
An American has written and edited thousands of articles on the official Wikipedia site for the centuries-old Scots language. The Wikipedia user AmaryllisGardener, an administrator for the site, has ...
Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...
E Jamieson has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sadie Ryan has previously received funding from the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scholarship. Rude, crude and extremely funny, ...
Last week, residents of Scotland voted not to break away from the U.K. in a much-anticipated referendum on Scottish independence. For those of us with a special fascination with culture and language, ...
An awards ceremony celebrating the indigenous Scots Language will return this year for it’s fifth outing. The Scots Language Awards 2024, organised by Hands up for Trad, launches today on the Scottish ...
Irene Watt would like to acknowledge the collaboration of Alistair Heather of The Elphinstone Institute in the writing of this article. The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken ...