Recent efforts have been made to revive the language with the government's Gaelic Language Plan aiming to bring it back into ...

In October 2003, a reporter in the Scotsman enthusiastically approved of the use of this Scots term: “The official opening of the Saline ‘Sitooterie’ caught our eye yesterday, or should that be ‘ee’.

A term to make your skin crawl! The Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines scabby-heided as “infested with head lice”.

Scots, the West-Germanic language, has declined in popularity in recent history, however their words are still used by many people. Teachers can use these short clips in the classroom to explore ...

it’s perhaps no surprise that this is one of Scotland’s most-used words. The Scots language - and Scottish vernacular - has a huge range of descriptive and colourful words that are unique to ...

When Still Wakes the Deep isn’t delivering accursed, heart-pounding horror, it’s offering an expletive-filled primer in the Scottish language. Verisimilitude, of place, period, and slang ...

It’s a 19th-century Scottish word that the Dictionaries of the Scots Language defines as “to lie in bed or lounge about when one should be up.” The practice is experiencing a resurgence: a calming ...

Scots has been spoken in Scotland for many centuries, by everyone including kings and queens. It’s a living language, with words and phrases that have been passed on and used by generations of ...