Articles categorised as 18th Century

The Audit & Rabbie Burns, Inglis speaker?

Weil weil, that's the audit out the nou, an am blythe it is. I ralley dinna hae mair tae eik ayont whit the main story on the site says, jist tae say that I howp this'll gie a heize tae the fowk...

Norwegian and Scots

The Norwegian language – then Old Norse – was brought to the Orkney islands by the Vikings during the 9th century. Later studies suggest that the form of Old Norse brought to Orkney originated in...

Burns not a manic depressive

Recently a controversy erupted over claims that Scots language bard Robert Burns might have been a manic depressive. Joan Charles, who has provided ‘intuitive readings’ of handwriting for over...

From 'On seeing a butterfly in the street'

DAFT gowk, in macaroni dress, Are ye come here to shew your face, Bowden wi' pride o' simmer gloss, To cast a dash at Reikie's cross; And glowr at mony twa-legg'd creature, Flees braw by art, tho'...

Breaking the mould

After the Union with England in 1707, it was the language of that country that increasingly came to be the language of formality and officialdom, in spite of the fact that most people spoke Scots....

Draft article

The Times reports that the new Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, which was finished on 12 May, will be the first in the country to use Scots to explain its collection. In addition to appearing in...

Scots language history lecture

We have here a link to an historical academic presentation by Dr Dauvit Horsbroch about the Scots language. Dr Horsbroch uses the Scots language to discuss the early evidence of Scots, it's...

An app’s an app for a’ that

Ahead of this year's Burns night, the Scottish Government has released a Burns app for the iPhone. As well as including more than 550 of the Bard's poems and love songs, the app gives users a...

Lost Scots dictionary found

A Scots dictionary compiled by 18th century biographer, James Boswell, has been found in the Bodleian Library by Scots language expert, Susan Rennie, reports Scotland on Sunday.  

Rab Wilson - Tradition of Scots language

BBC Scotland has produced a range of new Scots language resources. Check them out at the BBC Learning Zone.

Jacobite Songs

Scots songs celebrating Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his relatives were very much in vogue in the 19th century, although few, if any, were contemporaneous with the events of the Jacobite...