TO celebrate the Scots language and in the spirit of Burns day looming, The Scottish Sun in conjunction with Harper Collins has 50 copies of the Scots Dictionary to give away. With nearly 1,800 ...
Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...
Before the meteoric rise in printing technology, most European nations were a hodgepodge of dialects and linguistic variations. More of a flowing fabric of interwoven words across the continent, than ...
The Scots have coined plenty of funny and well-known phrases that have echoed right across the world down the centuries. From the iconic 'taps aff' which will have done the rounds in the recent warm ...