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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 …
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What will be will be.
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BIRL v, n spin, whirl The first unequivocal quotation with birl in the sense of spin appears in 1790 in David Morison Poems: “The temper pin she gi’es a tirl, An’ spins but …
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Occasionally someone comes along who is very perceptive. Someone with something simple but profound to say. Artist Róisín Gallagher who hails from Falkirk is just such a person. In her project …
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Hugh McMillan is a poet from Penpont in South West Scotland. His work has been published widely in Scotland and beyond, and he has won various prizes, most recently the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award …
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We hear aboot fit’s in the new online anthology Best Scottish Poems 2019 fae the Scottish Poetry Library. An in an extended interview - writer, musician, producer, composer, Freeland Barbour …