Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million ...

There's been a revival of the Scots language in recent years, with an estimated 1.5 million speakers. Campaigners say a new census this month will give them even more status and services. Scots might ...

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 ...

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 ...

This term is defined in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) as, “a payment in kind, especially of poultry, made by a tenant of land ...

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, ...

A free online course has been developed that teaches the Scots language in the context it is spoken. Developed by The Open University (OU) and Education Scotland, the course also highlights the role ...

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I write as a private individual with a passion for the Scots language, the ancient state language of Scotland in pre-Union times and the language of writers from Dunbar and Lyndsay, through Burns, to ...