East Central Scots Links

Robert Fergusson

Click here to read the entry on Burns’ favourite makar on the BBC’s Writing Scotland website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/



Robert Garioch

Click here to read the entry on Edinburgh poet Robert Garioch on the BBC’s Writing Scotland website.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/




Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is possibly the most famous Scots-language writer since Walter Scott. Click on the links below to find out more about his work.

http://www.irvinewelsh.com/ind



Allan Ramsay

Click here to read about Allan Ramsay, an important eighteenth-century poet and crucial influence on Robert Burns, on the BBC’s Writing Scotland website.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/



Scots Tung

Scots Tung is based in Musselburgh, East Lothian, and publishes a regular news letter in Scots called Scots Tung Wittins. Click here to find out more.

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Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech (SCOTS)

The SCOTS project, based at the University of Glasgow, is one of the best places to find examples of the Scots language in use. Click on the links below to see holdings relevant to East Central Scots.

http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.u


BBC Voices

The BBC Voices project looked at local speech in all the languages of these islands. Click on the links below to hear East Central Scots being spoken.

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BBC Voices Recording – Dunbar

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/re

BBC Voices Recording – Penicuik

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/re

BBC Voices Recording – Dunfermline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/re

BBC Voices Recording – St Andrews

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/re