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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new children's book aimed at encouraging school pupils to engage with the Scots language has been written in memory of a Dumfries woman. The Lois Sherret Trust was founded in memory of the ...