Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken today in Scotland, but rather a stage-Scots – essentially English ...
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 internet was ablaze earlier this week after it was discovered that the bulk of the Wikipedia pages for Scotland were written by an American teenager who doesn't even know the Scots language. A ...
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 ...
At the beginning of 2004 anyone will be able to access the definitive usage of any Scots word, ancient or modern, for free. The process of putting both the Scottish National Dictionary and the ...
This is one of those stories which seems like it might be a kind of “haha, how weird, the internet, am I right?!” type situation but which is actually pretty damned serious. It’s also only partially a ...
No True Scotsman: More than a third of the Scots language Wikipedia appears to have been written by someone with absolutely no knowledge of the Scots language. This has gone exactly as well as you ...
Lois Sherret, who died of a rare form of cancer, with her arm around her friend Claire Berridge [Claire Berridge] A new children's book aimed at encouraging school pupils to engage with the Scots ...