Our Scots Word of the Week: do you know a gawpus?

The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) didn’t pull any punches in its 1956 definition of this term: “A fool, a stupid clumsy lout, ...
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For years, an American has been writing articles in a stereotypical Scottish accent on the official Scots Wikipedia, and some people online are not happy

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 ...
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The Scots language is not something you make up as you go along

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...
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How Twitter is helping the Scots language thrive in the 21st century

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, ...
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Bilingualism: why boosting the rights of minority language speakers could help save Gaelic in Scotland

Jennifer Mattschey is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde and the Open University. When we talk about bilingualism, we often assume that people are equally fluent in both languages and use ...