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Me, Masel, and I

Are ye a young body wi an intress in the Scots leid, an ettlin tae get yersel knackie? Weel, this month the’r a warkshop in makkin an writin Scots that’s airtit at younkers in secondar scuils atween S4 an S6. Cryed Me, Masel, and I: Findin Yer Ain Voice in Scots, the …
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Unlocking Scots

Lang-time screivar, speirar an steerar, Dr Clive Young, a body that mony in the …

Collogue 2023

The Scots Leid Associe is haudin its yearly collogue an general gaithering this …

Kirk and Nation in Robert Burns

"In which Professor Gerard Carruthers will be arguing that the 1712 Patronage Act is more culture-defining for eighteenth-century Scotland than the 1707 Union of the Parliaments …" This free event from the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies will take place …
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The Jolly Beggars

The Scots Opera Project present a new version of Burns’ The Jolly Beggars, …

Tannahill The Opera

The world premiere of the Scots Opera Project's "Tannahill" at the historic …

Cragsman's Widow

This plaque hings in Kirkwa ('Kirkwall') in Orkney an haes the poyem Cragman's Widow bi Robert Rendall. Robert Rendall (18…

Dee an dy folk - Peerie Shop Cafe in Lerrick

A buird in the Peerie Shop Cafe, in Lerrick ('Lerwick'), Shetland, wi a toast wrutten in Shetland. In the Scots spoken bi …

The Muckle Haa

The Muckle Haa is on Scallowa ('Scalloway'), Shetland, an as the buird tells us the Soothron for muckle haa (or haw) is &q…

Dram an Haggis

Here an eatery or howf on the north gait o Saunt Aundraes cryed Dram an Haggis. A dram is a sma measure o drink. The'r a b…

Braw rows

Thir braw broun rows wis seen in Brochty Ferry ('Broughty Ferry'). Onything that's braw is affa guid or weel done. Photie…

Flooers

The Flooers shop in Kirkwa ("Kirkwall") in Orkney. The Soothron for flooers is 'flowers'. Photie taen bi Sarah …

Lines fae De Luca

The lines abuin wis waled oot the poyem Discontinuity bi Christine de Luca an can be fund in Lerrick, Shetland. The lines …

Uppie or Doonie

Ilka Yule Day an Ne'er Day the baw gemm is played throu the gaits o Kirkwa in Orkney. Aw the men an laddies taks pairt as …

Stravaigin

This poster wis seen twa-three month syne in Dundee an shaws a body wi a mask on that reads Stravaigin. Tho the weirin o m…

Gang Warily

This wis taen in Crieff, Perthshire, an shaws the dictum or motto o the RSAC - gang warily. The verb tae gang is the ordna…