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 ...

IF you have ever wanted a word to describe the sound made by walking in wet mud or perhaps that of a quaking bog, then this volume of nature-themed Scots words is a delight to leaf through. The idea ...

Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...

Before the meteoric rise in printing technology, most European nations were a hodgepodge of dialects and linguistic variations. More of a flowing fabric of interwoven words across the continent, than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scots have coined plenty of funny and well-known phrases that have echoed right across the world down the centuries. From the ...

A “significant jump” in the number of school pupils studying the Scots language has been recorded. Figures show that 418 pupils achieved the Scots Language Award (SCQF) in 2020 compared to 100 in 2019 ...