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 ...

An online dictionary has rediscovered lost Gaelic phrases and words. The meanings of the long-forgotten expressions have also been revealed. Faclair na Gàidhlig seeks to provide a better understanding ...

A few years ago I visited a school in Inverness to talk about Scots and English. “I hope you’re going to tell them off about ‘jamp’,” said the teacher sternly, as we walked down the corridor. It ...

The revival of the Scots language is continuing to gather apace with some much-loved Glasgow words and phrases now being recognised in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). This year, no less than 13 ...

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 ...

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Irene Watt would like to acknowledge the collaboration of Alistair Heather of The Elphinstone Institute in the writing of this article. The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken ...