Bob MacIntyre can't promise Alfred Dunhill F-bombs will stop dropping as swearing is just what Scots do
The Oban favourite will try and curb the on course cursing but won't change how he speaks in the heat of battle ...
The Scots Word of the Week: Stave
Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines one usage of stave as: “To sprain, bruise or contuse a joint of the body”. And in his ...
Scots children with developmental concerns up sharply since Covid
The number of children in Scotland with developmental concerns has sharply increased since the Covid pandemic, figures show ...
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In Pictures: How one hospital is faring as Sudan’s health care system is devastated by war
As the Nobel Peace Prize committee recoqnise the work of Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms, shortlisting them for a Nobel Peace Prize, NPR'S correspondent Emmanuel Akinwotu reports from one of war time ...
Parlez-vous AI? Francophone scholars warn against English language dominating AI
Experts call on global leaders and tech giants in an open letter to prioritise multilingualism in AI development.
Scottish Word of the Week: Quine – the Doric way to describe a lassie
A word typically associated with the Scots dialect of Doric, here is what quine means and where it comes from. In the present day, quine simply means a young woman. If you’re in or around the ...
What history tells us about how the Irish language has been treated in the north of Ireland
It is worth noting, as David Miller has, that Ulster Protestants before the end of the nineteenth century thought of ...
Singer Iona Fyfe got 'weird looks' for speaking in Scots at music college
The 26-year-old musician, who was this year named Scots Singer of the Year, said her classmates on the traditional music ...
The Scots Word of the Week: Chookie
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language gives a range of meanings for chookie. Today we are focusing on chicken or bird.
Talk time: Are you a pepper mill or a cowbell?
One is Welsh for a person who talks fast and won’t stop. The other is Russian for one who clangs on with nothing to say.
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Ben Lowry: We are told that we must have the Irish language everywhere yet very few nationalists speak it
Shortly before lockdown I took my late dad to a cardiac appointment at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.
The Ulster-Scots - Colourful Ulster-Scots Vocabulary - BBC Sounds
James Barron gives Helen Mark some examples of the richness of the Ulster-Scots language with words such as 'pachle' and ...