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One of Scotland’s leading equality charities has joined forces with the Scots Language Centre to help young people build bridges higher than walls. Nil by Mouth this week launches ‘Neeps …
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PECH v. to be out of breath, to pant The Dictionary of the Scots Language (www.dsl.ac.uk, DSL) defines pech as ‘To breathe quickly and in a laboured way, to pant with exertion’, …
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Emma Grae is a Scottish author and journalist from Glasgow.She has published fiction and poetry in the UK and Ireland since 2014 in journals including The Honest Ulsterman, From Glasgow to Saturn …
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SKOOSH v. (cause to) gush, squirt; move rapidly, glide, dart, etc. Skoosh is an onomatopoeic word that ably echoes the sound of what it describes. Although it may be considerably older, written evidence …
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Etta Dunn is an actor, writer, award-winning publisher and award-winning poet. Her work has been published in various anthologies, broadcast on radio and performed on stage in the Tron, Glasgow. …
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FLIT v, n to remove, a removal The sense of flit meaning ‘to move house’ is predominantly Scottish, as illustrated by this quotation from Lord Elchies Letters, ed. H D MacWilliam (1927): “Wee …
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Whither ye cry it a Neepie Lantrin, a Tumshie Lamp, or a Baigie, get howkin! Haurd gaun but wirth the sweit. Drap a caunnel in fir the licht, ye cannae baet the rael smell o Hallawe’en. …
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Whit could be better nor dookin yer face in a pail o freezin-cauld watter, tae try an sink yer teeth intae an aipple? Safties try tae dae it wi their mooth only, an haud wide o the watter sae their …
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Jim Ferguson is a well known Glasgow poet I've had the pleasure of poeming with at many a Glasgow spoken word event over the past 5 years I've known him, he is such fun to have attending any poetry …
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Sae a thocht ad gie ma pynt o view on aw is, an e story ahint whit caused iz tae stairt the editathon muivement an whit a hink anent the hale hing. On e 25t August 2020, a 4chan an Reddit post wis pit …