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Formerly known as the Widmann Blog

Scots on Smartphones

A’ve been fasht for a lang time at predictive keyboards wadna recognise Scots ava – ilka time ye uised a

Norway is in some regards at least 150 years ahead of Scotland: Until the mid-19th century Norwegians wrote standard Danish,

A while ago, Anna had to learn My Luve’s like a red, red rose by Rabbie Burns and she asked

Jeg blev bedt om at bede Robert Burns’ berømte Selkirk Grace på dansk til SNP Eastwoods 48. Burns Supper i

(Rebloggit fae ma political blog..) In the 2011 census, 1,225,622 fowks indicatit that thay coud speak, read an write Scots,

Ane o the mucklest differences atween auld an modren Scots is that the auld Scots grapheme <quh> /ʍ/ wis replacit

My old friend Kakha from Georgia was visiting us last week, and at one point I asked him whether Rabbie

In English, the words “he is not” can be contracted to either “he isn’t” or “he’s not”, but not to

When Rabbie Burns wrote his poetry, the radio hadn’t been invented yet, so it’s unlikely most folk had ever heard

Burns wrote his poems in Scots, but he generally used English orthography. For instance, here’s a bit of Auld Lang