AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

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LONDON (AP) – In a remote fishing town on the tip of Scotland’s Black Isle, the last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect has passed away, taking with him a little fragment of the English linguistic ...

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...

Doric, a little-known form of North East Scots, is undergoing a pandemic-inspired renaissance. “Slaverin, slubberin, gibberin, gabberin, roon wi a wallop, a sklyter, a sweel,” recited the poet.

"Outlander" stars Caitroina Balfe and Sam Heughan utilize a dialect coach to perfect the Gaelic language for the series. Starz The producers of “Outlander” are all about making the show as authentic ...

E Jamieson has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sadie Ryan has previously received funding from the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scholarship. Rude, crude and extremely funny, ...

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 ...

Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone has been translated to 79 languages. Today, it was published in its 80th translation — Scots. Now, some big news for "Harry Potter" fans. The first book of the ...