TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short dance, lip-sync, comedy an talent videos." ...

He writes in the mither leid, the mother tongue. But nothing his own mum could ever understand. Paul Malgrati has just had his first slim volume of poems published in Scots. This little book is firmly ...

SHE could almost be described as scunnered. One of Scotland’s most lauded poets, whose words adorn the national monument at Bannockburn and who has been honoured in poetry’s prestigious awards, has ...

It’s hard to imagine this funny, eloquent champion of Ulster-Scots being ill-tempered, but she’s adamant this is the case, ...

Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the ...

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, ...

Take a look at an Irish passport. You’ll find lines from the poet, James Orr: "The hedge-hauntin' blackbird, on ae fit whyles restin', Wad fain heat the tither in storm-rufflet wing" Orr was an Ulster ...

Imagine a world in which weather was only dull or dismal but never dreich, or in which you chatted or nattered to friends but never blethered. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Let’s Hear Whit the Dragon’s Goat Tae Say’ to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how ...

A project helping young people develop their creative writing skills by working with award-winning authors in Scots is into its second year at Kirkcudbright Academy. The workshops are a collaboration ...

Conal Gillespie chats with Gavin Falconer - a Scotsman who’s been working as an Ulster-Scots translator for the Northern Ireland Assembly at Stormont for over four years. At the QUB Symposium, he ...