Articles categorised as East central

Bards in praise of Edinburgh

Lizzie MacGregor, of the Scottish Poetry Library - in conjunction with Polygon (an imprint of Birlinn) - has published a new work entitled 'Luckenbooth.' As editor, MacGregor selected and put...

Stuart McHardy Traditional Night

Screivar an Scots steerar Stuart McHardy is tae sing tradeetional sangs at the Dumfaurlin Fowk Club, Thistle Tavern, Baldridgeburn, Dumfaurlin, on Wadensday 12 December, 8 for 8.30 stert. Tickets...

Supper Wi Burns

The Scots Centre for Storytelling is haudin a Supper Wi Burns on Wadensday 23 an Thursday 24 Januar. Linda Bandelier, David Campbell an Donald Smith is tae interteen fowk wi stories, poyems an...

Association for Scottish Literary Studies

The Associe for Lair in the Leetraturs o Scotland (Association for Scottish Literary Studies) is haudin its yearly confeerance at the Netherbow Theatre, 43-45 High Street, Embra. The day is tae be...

East Central South

[playlist42]  SUB DIALECT OF CENTRAL SCOTS: EAST CENTRAL SOUTH Name The dialect is known as East Central South to distinguish it from the related dialect further north. Speakers call their...

Broken Gong

Fifer Andy Chung’s latest album, Broken Gong, contains all the voices that make up one of Scotland’s most unusual and distinctive singers. Kirkcaldy born Chung comes from a musical family with a...

Buiks, fitbaw an ithir blethers

Hello aw, I howp ye hae aw been weil this week past. Gin ye byde in Edinburgh, ye cuid hae duin waur this week nor poppin intae St. Andrew's an St. George's Kirk on George Street tae tak a keik...

Hello aw, howp ye hae been keipin weil ower the hinmaist week. I hae been kepin masel busy wi wark, mainly, but also readin mair nor is guid fer me an a wee bit screivin whan I haed time. I...

Gaein fer a Daunner

Hello aw, howp ye hae been keipin weil ower the hinmaist week. I hae been kepin masel busy wi wark, mainly, but also readin mair nor is guid fer me an a wee bit screivin whan I haed time. I...

Estate agents in fremmit airtins, an a challenge

Hello aw, walcome tae this week's blog. It's a raither dreich day in Edinburgh the nou, tho yesterday wis braw, sae braw in fack, that whan Michael an I met wi ilk ithir up toun fer a wee...

Fitbaw: whit a scunner + Norrowegian fowkies an glaikit trowes

I dinna ken hou monie o ye haes been watchin the fitbaw frae Austrick an Swisserland ower the hinmaist week or twa, but I maun say - sum o it's been pretty guid. Whan ye see hou kintras like...

Chorin Stanes...

Hello aw, howp ye hae aw been fine this hinmaist week. I'm nippin out in a bit, sae jist time fer a wee blog this week I hae been feil thrang, I can tell ye that. Syne I'll be daein Scottish...

A braw nicht, thanks tae the SLC

Hello aw, howp ye hae been makkin the maist o wit braw simmer...or the twa-thrie braw hours we hae been gettin. Michael wis sayin this wad be the year fer a bonnie simmer - but sae faur it's...

Scots Leid Forum

Heya aw, howo ye'r aw daein weil. I hae faimily comin up frae Kendal the day, sae the hous is aw in an affy fankle an I ainlie hae time for a wee blog the nou. The heidmaist thing I'm...

Langauge chynges...

Hello aw, how ye hae been makkin the maist o this...this...simmer? Na, that's no the wurd, canna be... Ah, weil - I howp ye hae been makkin the maist o white'er fowk want tae cry this time o...

Scots Theatre

Hello aw, howp ye's daein weil. I stairtit readin David Lindsay's "Thrie Estatis" the ithir day, certaint ane tae be recommendit tae aw fowk (that's not fashed by sweiry wurds an laich...

A Little Respect

Hello aw, howp ye ar aw daein weill an managed tae survive the hinmaist week wiout a blog frae me tae keep ye gaein. I micht be awa up tae the heilands neist week, sae I'll pit a bittie mair...

Scots evening class - Edinburgh

In September 2008 Edinburgh City Adult Education Department ran an evening class entitled 'Storytelling in Scots'. The course was designed to help people revive their spoken Scots language in a...

YA DANCER

YA DANCER! Ther's monie wurds in Scots that we aw luve, that's mair expressive (tae us) nor their Inglis equeivalents - dreich, snell, braw, crabbit; awbodie's got their favourites, an ther's...

A hantle new Edinburgh wurds?

This is sumthing I hae been ettlin tae pit up for wee while, but jist no got roun tae. It's jist a wee hanlte o wurds that I hear yung Edinburgh fowk no sae deifferent frae amsel uisin, but I...

Freshers' Week

Weil, weil - I'm back again. Sairry for no postin on here for a wee while; it's been ma Freshers' Week at the Uni, ye see, an I hae been feil thrang, I can tell ye - whit wi no sleepin, meetin...

Places still available at Scots debate

Places are still available at a debate to be held this evening (23 September) at the National Library of Scotland. A panel including Professor John Corbett, poet Rab Wilson, and Scots and Gaelic...

Aye here!

Hey aw - this is jist a wee note tae let ye aw ken that I'm aye alive, an I've no been captured by aliens or oniething syne ma hinmaist blog. I'm that thrang wi Uni thir days I've jist no haed...

St. Andro's day, Romanian corbies an ithir blethers

Happy St. Andro's day tae awbody! I howp naebody'd neb'll pit out o jynt by ma uisin that spellin o wir parton saunt's name - thon's whit wey ma brither spells his, ye see. Jings it's fair...

Scots Human Rights in Audio Format - Listen Here

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Amnesty International has presented First Minister, Alex Salmond, with a poster copy of the Scots translation. In...

Siobhan Miller & Jeana Leslie

Siobhan Miller grew up in Midlothian, and on her 2008 album with Jeana Leslie she sings about the harsh conditions of the Midlothian pits in a version of Rod Paterson's 'The colliers eight hour...

Mair blethers

Hello, hello, me again. Howp ye'r aw bearin up unner the wecht o wunter caulds, the joys o Christmas shoppin an Slade as weil as I am masel. That's the first semester o Uni out the wey the...

Thochts

Hello aw, howp ye haed a guid Christmas an Hogmanay an ye'r aw daein weil i the wunter cauld. I haed a wee bit cauld masel, but I'm ower it the nou. It wis guid seein faimily an there wis guid...

Burns Nicht

Hello aw, howp ye'r daein weil. Dinna ken about ye, but I'm fair leukin forrit tae Burn's Nicht. Haggis aye gaes doun weil in ma hous. Say whit ye like about cliches an tartanry; guid fuid an...

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...

Snaw or lectures?

Snaw or lectures. snaw or lectures? Hehehe, I turn intae sic a bairn whan it snaws... Seein the wurd o the week is "thrang" - the Gaelic for "busy" is "trang" - "Tha mi ag obair gu trang" (I'm...

New fundin, internet, Dictionars

Weil, first o aw, I maun say weil duin tae the fowk at the SLC an the Dictionars that haes at lang an last got the govrenment tae fund thaim direckly raither nor through the Airts Council. Gin ye...

Scunnered...

Been a wee while syne I wis last able tae blog on here (hou maun Uni wark get i the wey o whit I'm wantin tae dae?), but a story I saw a week or sae back fair got me thrawn an I thocht I'd let ye...

Scots an Dutch

Weil, I wis fair scunnered efter watchin the fitba on Setterday nicht. Scotland wis outclassed, nae quaystion. Whan ye'r up agin a side that can pit players like Snijder on the bench ye ken...

Easter

Hey aw, wissin a guid Easter tae aw o ye. It's guid tae see the new front page o the site takkin shape, I maun say it luiks braw, daes it no? Guid tae see the YouTube channel an picturs...

Parochial smarochial...

I jalouse like maist o ye I wis mair nor a wee bittie bemused by David Starkey's comments on the telly a couple o days syne. Offendit? Na, no ralley, jist a bit dumfounerit. Mainly I wis...

Flittin, Nae Mince etc.

Weil, I'm back on bloggin efter a wee whilie awa. Jist flittit twa week syne, sae aye trying tae redd out a nummer o fankles that's no richt just yet. It's guid tae see thon veidio "Nae...

Nps n tatties

Ok, back again - been a while syne I wis at this... Been that thrang wi this an that, ne'er got time tae sit doun tae ma blog. First, I'd like tae gree wi Bill Wilson an wir verra ain Iain...

Neologisms

...weil, I haed tae blog on it suiner or later, jist be gled it's no spellin... Ane o first things a bodie rins up agin in Scots writin is the nummer o wurds ye see that dinna resemble the...

A Sober Student Looks at MacDiarmid

Weil, first aff I maun say "weil duin" tae Billy Kay on gettin his honorary degree frae the University of the West of Scotland (read about it i the news section o the site). He ralley deserrs...

Facebook

I wis about tae pit up a link tae the campaign tae get Facebook i Scots, but I jist saw the story on the hame page afore I did! Oniewey, here's the link, alang wi twa-thrie ithirs for onie o ye...

Grangemouth firm isn't short of "things tae dae".

Grangemouth printers Flavell have introduced a range of telephone reminder pads featuring some of Scotland's best known buildings and places with the bilingual message, Things tae dae / Things to...

European Day o Leids

The ithir day wis the European Day o Leids - though I'd no hae kent thon gin I haedna seen it on the BBC wabsite the ithir day. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/edl/). I haed a wee keik at the...

Edinburgh place names examined in course

Edinburgh’s Telford College is holding a four week course about the origins and history of Edinburgh place names. Many of the place names in and around the capital come from Scots, such as Harlaw...

New Book published by William Hershaw

Scots language poet, teacher and musician William Hershaw has published a new work - Johnny Aathin. The work contains prose and poetry in Scots and is set in a fictional Fife coal mining village....

The Hamecomin

Norma-Ann Coleman has written a poem inspired by a painting - La Rue du Tramway by Paul Delvaux.  Entitled The Hamecomin, it was written after viewing the painting at the Dean Gallery in...

Scotland Library, Edinburgh

Central Library in Edinburgh has a comprehensive collection of books about Scotland. Within this collection a substantial number are in the Scots language or about the language. While some such as...

Falkirk Pupils learn about Scots

A Falkirk primary school is taking a new approach to the use of Scots in the classroom, The Falkirk Herald reports. Pupils at Nethermains Primary have been working with well-known Scots writer...

Tom Fleming - voice of the Scots Gospels

Tom Fleming began acting in 1945, co-founded the Edinburgh Gateway Company in 1953, and from 1962-4 was a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He founded and directed the Royal Lyceum...

Census - nou the wark ralley stairts

Weil, first I’d lik tae say walcome tae Margaret Tong – I’m ralley luikin forrit tae readi mair o yer blogs, Margaret.   The muckle news for Scots raicently haes been the 2011 Census.  Efter a...

Edinburgh Library list of Scots language literature

Older Scots (prose)Boece, Hector. The history and chronicles of Scotland, written in Latin by Hector Boece, canon of Aberdeen and translated by John Bellenden, archdean of Moray and canon of Ross....

Four star review for SLC - Luath event

Irene Brown's review first appeared on edinburghguide.com  This reviewer’s previous incarnation as the Stravaigin Reporter for the organisation Scots Tung, has allowed me to be on the mailing...

"A Braw Nicht Oot"

Prestonpans storyteller Tim Porteous, together with storytellers from around Scotland, is set to mark the forthcoming Scots census question with a night of storytelling in Scots followed by a play...

A Braw Nicht Oot

Storyteller Tim Porteus is hosting another Braw Nicht Oot at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, beginning at 7pm. Tickets cost £7 (£5 concession). For a night of...

Guid Crack wi Robertson

Tony Robertson will be hosting a night of tales, balads and songs drawn from Jeannie Robertson, Lizzie Higgins, Stanley Robertson and others, beginning at 7.30pm in The Waverely Bar, 3-5 St Mary's...

Singin The Sea

The Scottish Fisheries Museum, St Ayles, Harbourhead, Anstruther Easter, Fife, is hosting 'Singin The Sea', a special workshop devoted to the traditional tales and songs of the Scottish fishing...

Guid Crack wi Spence

James Spence will be holding a night of traditional tales to celebrate midsummer, at the Waverley Bar, 3-5 St Mary's Street, Edinburgh, 7.30pm. Donations welcome. Please contact...