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Creative artist and performer Ishbel McFarlane, who is well known for her love of and support for the Scots language, is currently touring Scotland with her one-woman show ‘O is for Hoolet’. …
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This new poem by Sheena Blackhall was inspired by an old map of Westmorland – now part of Cumbria. Sheena has incorporated these northern English place names into Scots, and turned the whole poem …
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One would certainly pity the poor individual to which the above definition could apply. The Dictionary of the Scots Language www.dsl.ac.uk goes on to give us ‘wallydraggle tail – a slattern’. The …
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A North East MP has recently been highlighting the Scots language among Scottish politicians. Aberdeen North MP Kirsty Blackman, who was elected to the seat in May 2015, recently left Westminster clerks …
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Whit sangs, tales an dauncin culd we gie ilka bairn in Scotlan fir a richt guid handsel? Tae stert oot wi as a smidgin, a wee seed whilk micht graw intae muckle trees o pleisur an wunner. Here’s …
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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 …