Articles categorised as Central east

West Central dialect

Studies of modern Scots speakers and writers from Burns Country suggest that this variety of Scots combines tradition and innovation. The Scottish National Dictionary supplements include some well...

East Central Scots Links

Robert Fergusson Click here to read the entry on Burns’ favourite makar on the BBC’s Writing Scotland website. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/arts/writingscotland/writers/robert_fergusson/...

Dookin for aipples

“Dookin for aipples” is one of the most popular Hallowe’en traditions in Scotland. In this film from 1961 youngsters in Edinburgh show how it's done.http://ssa.nls.uk/Dookin for aipples image from...

NLS debate report

A debate about Scots held last month at the National Library of Scotland brought in an audience of over 100 people. Here David Purves gives his impression of the evening's events. At the moment...

John C L Gibson

John C L Gibson's plan to translate the Old Testament into Scots was hampered by age and infirmity. In this obituary in the Scotsman, Graeme Auld describes Gibson's life long interest 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...

David

For the Rev David Ogston, 1947-2008 Bard an meenister in ane Straicht the furra that he trod May his ghaistly fitsteps climm Jacob’s laidder, tae his God. Douce, he wis, a...

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Aw hamel Scots hae the foonds for twa-haundit crack wi onie ither Scots fowk fae onie ither pirt o Scotland an abreed, juist lik burds thit whinner an whustle sangs, thay wad be kent bi ilk ither. Its whan the yin o burds gaither lik a waddin o craws or a reest o stuckies thit thair ain bi-leid sterts, juist lik hamel Scots leevin in yin destrick gabbin a wee bittie unalik fae thair neibors doon the neixt destrick. Darwin lays aff aboot 'geographical isolation' makkin sum burds lik the wrans leevin St Kilda chynge fae thair kizzens the Katie wrans on the mainlaund. This maun hae happent tae the fowk o Scotland in the bygane whan ilka pairt yaised its ain wirds, an the fowk didnae travel ower muckle, and didnae mairry ootby thair ain veelages. Wirds yaised bi fowk in thair ain cauf-kintrae micht be yaised bi somebodie else ower the hulls or doon the glen for summit else makkin the wird hae twa-three chices an the hail bi-leid coud chynge.
Nae maither whit leid onie o the burds yaised thay aw kent fine aboot aetin breid, an wirnae feart o yammerin awa. Weel, ma teas feenisht noo sae A'll gaun oot an dae the messages. Nae doot A'll hae anither girn afore lang. Ta-ta the noo.
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Thochts fae the burd table

Hallo. A'm nae yaised tae this here new-farrant wey o bletherin cawd bloggin bit A'll gie it a shottie. Oo dae ken yin anither yit bit thats nae a baud thing whan oo dae oo micht for hae yin - twa...

Teaching Scots in Falkirk

A network of teachers in Falkirk has been set up to help support the use of Scots language in education. The experiences of one teacher involved in setting up this group has been outlined in an...

Drunk Man set to music

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Hugh MacDiarmid’s Scots poem, with its infamously thrawn narrator, is set to music of huge imagination and vibrancy by Glasgow composer Bill Sweeney  in a...

"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...

Sauchs, Scaurs and Signage

I want them back, the written-over names that gentrifying fashion anglicised, that bland or blind tuition vandalised. I want the stories that the map disclaims. the Brig o Allan, Corntoun, Chuckie...