A major new linguistic survey of the Scots vocabulary is being launched, in a bid to help preserve the language. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen will lead what they describe as the first ...

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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 ...

Editors have shared the modern everyday words that are set to be included in the updated Scots language dictionary. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

ALTHOUGH spoken Scots appears to be in danger of dying out altogether as a living language, there is now considerable interest in Scots as a means of cultural expression. The poet Sydney Goodsir Smith ...

A West Lothian activist has organised a campaign to champion the Scots dialect ahead of Burns night next week, with primary schools across West Lothian showing their support. Whitburn teacher and ...

I cannot help but notice the (deliberate?) juxtaposition of Simon Kuper’s column about learning languages (“The case for diving into another language”, FT Weekend, April 24) and Val McDermid’s piece ...

A major new linguistic survey of the Scots vocabulary is being launched, in a bid to help preserve the language. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen will lead what they describe as the first ...