TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short dance, lip-sync, comedy an talent videos." ...

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, ...

Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn’t even speak the language — resulting in comically-bad entries that read like they came from ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the ...

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 ...

The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) tell us that broukit means “soiled with soot or streaked with dirt”. Nineteenth-century examples show that the term was often used to describe children.

RAB: My favourite word in Scots would be 'braw'. NARRATOR: Rab Wilson is a man who lives his life in Scots. He writes it, he speaks it, and he makes his living from it. RAB: You been busy today?

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