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What better way to celebrate St Andrews Day than with a selection of Scots language songs and poems. Steve Byrne has put together a great playlist for St Andrew's Day - sing along, listen in and enjoy …
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Derrick McClure looks at the history of patriotic verse in Scotland.
On the day o our patron sanct, lats tak a scance at the weys our makars throu the yearhunners hae expremit thair pride in the nation …
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Giggling Jock is the title o an event the morn's nicht at the Stand Comedy Club in Embra. Susan Morrison is hosting the evening as pairt o Previously - Scotland's Festival of History. She'll be lookin …
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While it is true that the Grimm brothers can be said to have established the modern idea of folklore as an area of research and study, there are examples of people in earlier ages whom we would described …
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The Grimm brothers generally known as the Brothers Grimm were two German scholars who collected stories and traditions, mostly from central Europe, during the 19th century. It would be fair to say that …
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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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This word may be prefixed to a surname as in a recommendation from the Edinburgh Gazette (1705): “The best Oranges and Lemons, Pipens, Renets and English Aples, newly come from Abroad, with the …
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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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Insular basically means island and covers the two island groups of Orkney and Shetland. In ancient times Pictish was spoken but was replaced by Norwegian when the …
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The second of the main dialect regions of the Scots language is known as Northern Scots because it covers the northern part of mainland Scotland. The principal city in this region is Aberdeen.The …