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Children at Banff Academy have recently teamed up with Claire Needler from the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen and Dr Jamie Fairbairn from Banff to study the impact of learning through …
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SHILPIT adj feebleA Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue has little evidence of the early use of shilpit, but what is has is splendid. It cites Sir Robert Moray’s Letters to Alexander Bruce, …
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The Scottish Government recently reiterated its support for the Scots-speaking community. On 3 October 2018 Mark McDonald Independent MSP for Aberdeen Donside lodged the following question – …
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LYART adj of hair, streaked with white; variegated, multi-coloured The roots of this word are obscure but it is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, possibly from older French ‘liart’. The …
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SKITE v dart, shoot through the air, fall or be driven in a slanting directionSkite is one of these Scots words that defies translation into English. We find it used of the unimpeded slanting …
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The Scots Language Centre have developed new, interactive, online resources to support learners of Scots. The materials draw on features that were previously available through Scots Language Dictionary’s Scuilwab, …
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid is due to be released in a Scots version on 20 September. The American satirical novel was written by Jeff Kinney and published in 2004, followed by a film adaption in 2010. Now a …
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It is now the 210th anniversary of the publication of Reverend Dr John Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in 1808. The importance of this work – the first complete …
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The Scots Leid Associe / Scots Language Society has recently established an online blog at https://scotsleid.org/ . The bog is intended to complement the existing society website (Lallans.co.uk) but will …
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skoosh v. (cause to) gush, squirt; move rapidly, glide, dart, etc.Skoosh is an onomatopoeic word that ably echoes the sound of what it describes. Although it may be considerably older, written evidence …