A new children's book aimed at encouraging school pupils to engage with the Scots language has been written in memory of a Dumfries woman. The Lois Sherret Trust was founded in memory of the ...

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

The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) trace the history of this term for a “chimney… [or] a chimney stack” back to the ...

There's been a revival of the Scots language in recent years, with an estimated 1.5 million speakers. Campaigners say a new census this month will give them even more status and services. Scots might ...

I write as a private individual with a passion for the Scots language, the ancient state language of Scotland in pre-Union times and the language of writers from Dunbar and Lyndsay, through Burns, to ...

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 ...

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

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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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, ...

Half a million people should "have knowledge" of Irish and 10% of children should be in Irish-medium education in 20 years time. That is according to recommendations for an Irish language strategy ...