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Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the ...

Take a look at an Irish passport. You’ll find lines from the poet, James Orr: "The hedge-hauntin' blackbird, on ae fit whyles restin', Wad fain heat the tither in storm-rufflet wing" Orr was an Ulster ...

Imagine a world in which weather was only dull or dismal but never dreich, or in which you chatted or nattered to friends but never blethered. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

Last week, residents of Scotland voted not to break away from the U.K. in a much-anticipated referendum on Scottish independence. For those of us with a special fascination with culture and language, ...

Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Let’s Hear Whit the Dragon’s Goat Tae Say’ to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how ...

Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Let’s Hear Whit the Dragon’s Goat Tae Say’ to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how ...

A project helping young people develop their creative writing skills by working with award-winning authors in Scots is into its second year at Kirkcudbright Academy. The workshops are a collaboration ...

Scots language? Scots leid? Whit ye talkin aboot? It’s no even a real language. It’s aw that makey-up stuff, is it no? Ken, it’s juist slang. Juist a dialect. It’s deid onywey. Naebody speaks it.