E Jamieson has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sadie Ryan has previously received funding from the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scholarship. Rude, crude and extremely funny, ...

TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short dance, lip-sync, comedy an talent videos." ...

The Scottish accent can be notoriously hard for other English speakers to understand, but what if that’s because it’s not ...

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...

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AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

There is a great deal of cynicism about Ulster Scots among unionists. Many consider it a desperately contrived counterweight ...

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An awards ceremony celebrating the indigenous Scots Language will return this year for it’s fifth outing. The Scots Language Awards 2024, organised by Hands up for Trad, launches today on the Scottish ...

A strategy for the Irish language and one for the Ulster-Scots language, heritage and culture should be published in the coming year. That is according to the Department for Communities' screening of ...

They are words familiar to fans of the hit TV show Outlander. Now a charity has compiled an extensive list of its favourite Scots words, and their meanings, from the books that the series is based on ...