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The hugely successful children’s author David Walliams now has a couple of his novels translated into Scots. The Billionaire Boy, the tale of a boy with everything except a friend has been translated …
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Several picture books by the massively popular Julia Donaldson are now available in Scots language versions.The Gruffalo has been translated into five editions representing alternative dialects of Scots.The …
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In modern Scots we think mainly of spails as small splinters, which could get embedded annoyingly in the skin, as in “This plank’s ower spaily for sittin on” from Perth (1950). However, …
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In this, and other similar articles, the visitor is introduced to a number of words in Scots related to the concept of death and funerary customs. A brief explanation is given in the equivalent English …
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This is quite a long poem and in a particular tradition, which could be described as slightly old-fashioned as in pre-TV entertainment, when folk would sit around the fire and listen to a scary story …
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In this, and other similar articles, the visitor is introduced to a number of words in Scots related to the concept of death and funerary customs. A brief explanation is given in the equivalent English …
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An apparent proposal to change the title Scots Makar to National Poet for Scotland led to heated debate this week. Robyn Marsack, retiring director of the Scottish Poetry Library had told the Sunday Herald …
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The Scots Language Centre has previously reported on research by Dr Karen A Lowing on Scots in the classroom. Karen Lowing began her research in 2010 in a study called ‘Ane Instruction for Bairnis …
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Praisents breed aneath an artifeecial tree;bouk mair worth nor thochtor time. Nae time noo - fur ye’re nae langer here.Nae instant fix o comfort an joyfur me this year -jist caul turkeyfollaed …
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The National Records of Scotland (NRS) census Topic Consultation, which opened on 8 October, will remain open until the deadline of Friday 15 January 2016. The Topic Consultation asks for suggested topics …