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Where are the Borders and Caithness dialect writers? This is the question Evertype Online Publishers are asking. Some time ago Evertype launched a project to translate Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland …
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A Sonnet Redouble celebrating the life and times of William McCaw.Many years ago a book was recommended to me, by a venerable local worthy who knew I was interested in local history. This book was written …
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Braken Fences, Wolf Kurtoglu’s first novel, has been described as ‘masterful’ (the Blether Region) and ‘the best novel written in Scots in recent times’ (Rab Wilson, …
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Wigtown Book Festival have invited entries for their forthcoming Wigtown Poetry Competition. As well as writing in English, the competition also has categories for both Gaelic and Scots. The main prize …
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There are towns and villages in Scotland where the Scots language names have been Anglicised or changed altogether, but what if your town had no names to begin with? Or rather, many streets without names. …
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Dundee United’s Polish goalie Radoslaw Cierzniak admits he was tongue-tied when he first came to Tannadice. Speaking to the press (Daily Record, 9 March 2013) 29 year old Cierzniak said it had been …
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Braken Fences, Wolf Kurtoglu’s first novel, has been described as ‘masterful’ (the Blether Region) and ‘the best novel written in Scots in recent times’ (Rab Wilson, …
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As an adverb, ahint can refer to place or time. This example from Robert Ford’s Tayside Songs (1895) makes light of misfortune: “When Fortune jooks ahint An’ scuds ye wi’ her broom”. …
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The results of the census held in England and Wales in 2011 have for the first time revealed an official figure for Scots speakers in those countries. People were asked not only about their proficiency …
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In A Modren Scots Grammar, Scottish Language Dictionaries Director, Dr Chris Robinson sets out the rules of Scots Grammar in a straightforward and easy to understand form.
In a series of short films …