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Colin Wilson has been a prominent Scots language activist for over two decades. He is a campaigner and writer and his Scots Language Learner course has recently been republished by Luath. Colin grew up …
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The Scottish National Dictionary entry for ‘birse’ starts with a puzzling saying from James Kelly’s Complete Collection of Scotish went through the ceremony on Saturday of ‘licking …
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Scots poet, Irene Broon, is marking Leap Year with a proposal.
Leap Year 2012
This leap year, wearin the requisite reid petticoat,
A propone
no tae a man nor a wumman
but tae mankind (or at …
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This region contains some of the most historic towns in Scotland. On its northern edge is Dundee, founded in the late 12th century by Earl David, brother of William The Lion. In the …
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SUB DIALECT OF NORTHERN SCOTS:
EAST ANGUS & KINCARDINE
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People here have traditionally called their dialect Scots or Scotch, but if you live in the northern part of the …
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For almost a thousand years the language of the Orkney Islands was a variant of Norse known as Norroena (or Norn in Scots). The distinctive and culturally unique qualities of the Orkney …
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Scots is the collective name for Scottish dialects known also as ‘Doric’, ‘Lallans’ and ‘Scotch’ or by more local names such as ‘Buchan’, ‘Dundonian’, …
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This article first appeared in Lallans Nummer 79 and is republished here with the kind permission of the author.Scotland, wi its mony-leedit history, haes a fouth o place an topographic names that, tae …
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John Hodgart is a former English teacher, a member of the Scottish Goverment's working group on Scottish Studies and a member of the Scots Language Centre's Council. In this article he explores the place …
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The Scottish Society of Linguists is planning to hold a conference on a Saturday afternoon, sometime in September 2012, at the Queen’s Hotel, opposite the train station in Perth. Details are still …