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Why you need to learn Scots to understand Scottish English

When I moved to Scotland and had to learn to understand the natives, I was of course aware of the

(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

The most prestigious variety of Italian has been described as lingua toscana in bocca romana, or the Tuscan language in

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

The existence of national flags makes it easy to create country icons (e.g., in a menu where you can select

One of the things I like about Scotland is that it has never been a monocultural place — it has

The fact that the 2011 Census provides figures for the number of Scots speakers in each council area makes it

Today saw the release of more results from Scotland’s 2011 census, in particular about languages. The decline of Gaelic seems

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