Articles categorised as Modern History

John J Graham - Champion of the Shetland dialect

John J. Graham 1921-2008 The strength of the dialect in Shetland today is due in no small measure to John Graham who has died at the age of 86. Throughout his life he was involved in promoting...

Mony a Midder's Son

Fair Isle singer Lise Sinclair recorded the song Mony a Midder’s son for Shetland composition Ivver Entrancin Wis. The song combines Arabic and Shetland flavours and was written as a response to...

Walking on the Moon

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the moon landings the Scots Language Centre has put together a couple of features, along with some poems in Scots, about the moon and space. It was on 21 July...

The Patter Strikes back?

In the 20th and early 21st centuries the dialect of Glasgow has been the subject of several research projects and popular books. Research into the health of the language (of which work by Dr...

Football Crazy

Now that the 2009-10 football season is well underway, the Scots Language Centre has delved into the history and traditions of the game as expressed through the Scots language, and what a rich...

Scotspeak

Scotspeak was first published by the SLC’s predecessor organisation, the Scots Language Resource Centre. It was hugely popular with actors and others who wanted to know what Scots and Scottish...