People across Scotland are being invited to celebrate those championing the Scots leid as nominations for the Scots Language Awards 2026 open.

"A little bit of color in our lives is gone," linguist says Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the ...

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 ...

What would ye twa cotters ken o’ battle, eh? I bet ye Lallybroch tumshies will turn arse and run at first blast o’ cannon fire… Pithy Scots brogue and throwaway insults punctuate Outlander, the ...

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Rude, crude and extremely funny, “Scottish Twitter” has garnered much attention in recent years for its uniquely Celtic wit – and for the specific ways it uses language. Journalist Eve Livingston’s ...

Now, some big news for "Harry Potter" fans. The first book of the series, "Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone," has been translated into its 80th language, and it comes out today. What's that ...

“I have been on a poetic journey through Ulster-Scots for quite a few years and creating my own collection of contemporary verse is an important milestone on that journey,” says Alan, who is ...