We explore how interjections and nouns behave in Scots. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk

We look at the finer details of the sounds of the Scots accent. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk

We explore the basic sounds of the Scots voice. Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk

Scots is a language. It has its own system of sounds, which has been adapted to speak Scottish Standard English, its own vocabulary, its own grammar and its own idiom. In these videos I explore these aspects of our often misunderstood Scots. Download the slides and learning resources I am releasing under a copyleft Creative Commons licence Atribution 4.0 from: https://independent.academia.edu/DempsterM https://www.mindyerlanguage.scot Watch my TEDx Inverness video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRnQ8lYcvFU Visit www.ScotsLanguage.com and follow the Scots Language Centre across social media to get the most up to date information on Scots. Use Scots Language Dictionaries to explore your language! www.dsl.ac.uk

Scots, the Germanic language closest to English, had remained largely an oral language until the dawn of the internet. With the ability to publish in their own hands Scots speakers, singers, and scholars began to communicate on usenet and put up wabsteids on the Warld Wide Wab from its inception. With the growth of web forums, wikis, and subsequently social media and smartphone apps, reading and writing the language has become a daily practice in the lives of speakers world-wide for the first time in a long time. The increased visibility of the language feeds the general recognition that it be further included in school education. Online education resources such as those provided by the Scots Language Centre and the National Library of Scotland, and courses such as the Open University’s Scots Language and Culture Open Learn Course aim to support speakers in becoming literate and learners to acquire Scots. Most speakers are approaching writing Scots with little or no education in their spoken language, what are the consequences of this online phenomenon linguistically and where may this take the language in the future? MindYerLanguage.scot The Language Event Join us at: TheLanguageEvent.com fb.com/TheLanguageEvent fb.com/groups/TheLanguaageEventEdinburgh fb.com/groups/TheLanguageEventAuckland fb.com/groups/ThelanguageEventMelbourne twitter.com/PolyglotMeetup instagram.com/TheLanguageEvent Polyglot Conference Join us at: PolyglotConference.com fb.com/PolyglotConference fb.com/groups/PolyglotConference twitter.com/Polyglot_Confer instagram.com/PolyglotConference Filming & Editing: Simos Batzakis