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 ...

Last week, residents of Scotland voted not to break away from the U.K. in a much-anticipated referendum on Scottish independence. For those of us with a special fascination with culture and language, ...

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 ...

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, ...

We should talk about languages, Scottish ones. In the last few months I keep coming across people who get angry when they see the speech of their compatriots written down. Whether it is road signs in ...

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.

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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 ...