A major new linguistic survey of the Scots vocabulary is being launched, in a bid to help preserve the language. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen will lead what they describe as the first ...

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They are words familiar to fans of the hit TV show Outlander. Now a charity has compiled an extensive list of its favourite Scots words, and their meanings, from the books that the series is based on ...

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 ...

Edinburgh Fog receives a brief mention in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (at the entry for haggis, where it appears in a 2003 citation ...

LONDON – The Inuit of the Arctic know a lot about snow, and their wide vocabulary for the white stuff is legendary. But they may face a challenge in snow-describing ability — from Scotland.

ALTHOUGH spoken Scots appears to be in danger of dying out altogether as a living language, there is now considerable interest in Scots as a means of cultural expression. The poet Sydney Goodsir Smith ...

A major new linguistic survey of the Scots vocabulary is being launched, in a bid to help preserve the language. Researchers at the University of Aberdeen will lead what they describe as the first ...