Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn’t even speak the language — resulting in comically-bad entries that read like they came from ...
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 ...
An American has written and edited thousands of articles on the official Wikipedia site for the centuries-old Scots language. The Wikipedia user AmaryllisGardener, an administrator for the site, has ...
The winners of the Scots Language Awards 2026, organised by Hands Up for Trad, have been revealed at a sold-out ceremony at ...
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) succinctly define Jeddart or Jethart snails as “a kind of toffee sold in Jedburgh”.
A dedicated network of editors (both bots and humans) help keep Wikipedia factual, but certain errors are hard to spot. This includes mistakes in articles written in more obscure languages. A recent ...
Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.
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 ...
A NEW nationwide week celebrating the Scots language has been announced as the winners of the 2026 Scots Language Awards were revealed.
"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 ...