Ye can listen tae the wirds o the week fae Dictionaries of the Scots Language bein read alood oan oor 'Wird o the Week' playlist: bit.ly/wirdoweek
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Posts by Scots Language Centre
Do you have strong skills in communicating using digital tools?
The Scots Language Centre is looking for a part-time (one day per week) Content Creator to develop and publish content on their website and social media channels.
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Dae you hae strang skills in communicatin yaisin digital tools?
The Scots Language Centre is luikin fir a pairt-time (yin day ilka week) Content Creator tae mak an publish content oan thir website an social media channels.
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Whit does James VI o Scotland / James I o England hae tae dae wi the status o Scots?
Read aboot King James VI/I, the Union o the Crown an how it affectit Scotland's cultur in this resource fae @natlibscot.bsky.social
www.nls.uk/collections/...
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Tobar an Dualchais/Kist of Riches an Eden Court ir luikin fir twa musicianers, yin o thaim tae be wirkin in Scots.
Interestit?
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The @royalsoced.bsky.social cairry oan thir events luikin at leids the night, wi 'The hail clanjamfrie'.
Book via Eventbrite tae jyne in online.
Ye'll can see last week's event (The History of Scots and English in 10 objects) via the RSE YouTube channel.
www.youtube.com/c/TheRoyalSo...
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Morna Young - The Twa Chrisses
#iwd #InternationalWomensDay
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Gerda Stevenson - Kilmeny
#iwd #internationalwomensday
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Wife to Noah Eunice Buchanan I didna speak whan it bleetert doon. Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had the bastes in an’ the fowl settled. I didna speak whan the watters spewed ower ma rigs o’ corn an’ doon the street intae ma hoose amangst ma rugs an’ the bonny things I had fae ma mither. I didna speak whan I heard ma frien Becca battrin at the howe o’ wir boat, her bairn in her airms, yowlin like een o’ the damned o’Hell. We had linkit doon the years fae bairnie tae wife. Ma bonny hinnie, weel-hertit Becca. I clappit ma haunds tae ma lugs an’ flung ma airms aboot ma laddies, but still I didna speak I didna speak whan the lift grew black an’ blacker an’ there wis naither muin nor sun an’ the cries that had been aa aboot us wir smoored. Nae soond on that black sea but the doonfa, the dreep, the plowt, the pish-oot o’ grey watter on grey watter. I canna speak o’ the things on the watter as the days drave on – swollen an’ blae, wi the sea-maws skirlin an’ pickin, skirlin an’ pickin. Syne whan the well-heid dried an’ the watters sank, the laund, oor bonny laund, slaich an’ slairy wi’ black glaur, an’ oorsels alane. But whan I gang the low road on the hinmaist day an’ I climb the steps for my tryst wi’ God I will look the Almichty in the face – an’ I will hae ma say.
I didna speak
whan it bleetert doon.
Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had
the bastes in an’ the fowl settled…
—Eunice Buchanan, “Wife to Noah”
from MARKINGS 30 (2010)
#InternationalWomensDay #poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wife-no...
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How come you've no got anything tae say?
You've no opened yir mooth.
Whit's wrang. Am A' no daeing it right?
A' dinny ken hoo yir supposed tae dae therapy.
Maw Broon Visits a Therapist
by Jackie Kay
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March Andrew Dodds On Sunday gawky and glaiket, For life no carin’ a preen; On Monday lookin’ forsaket, Wi’ a misty weet in her een; On Tuesday as prim as a daisy, And sweet as a maiden can be; On Wednesday cap’rin’ and crazy, Wi’ an eldritch glint in her e’e; On Thursday smilin’ and winsome – Settin’ the blackies a’ gyte; On Friday dowie and dinsome, Fu’ o’ splutter and spite; On Seterday in a white mantle, A daffodil stuck in her hair, She walks doon the dusk wi’ a hantle O’ pride in her sorrowfu’ air.
On Sunday gawky and glaiket,
For life no carin’ a preen;
On Monday lookin’ forsaket,
Wi’ a misty weet in her een;
On Tuesday as prim as a daisy,
And sweet as a maiden can be;
On Wednesday cap’rin’ and crazy,
Wi’ an eldritch glint in her e’e…
—Andrew Dodds, “March”
#Scots #poem #poetry
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Ma aunt raising her vodka Iron-Bru, a tumblr ae noxious flame, a toast
tae me, n ma frilly jig. Awk A jist lettum wear witever he wahnts tae wear.
'Goonie', by Michael Mullen (corsair)
@littlebrownbooks.bsky.social
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Ma schame wis verra simple
- catastrophise
Gae tae the wurst case scenario
Def con wan
internally obviously
No sae onywan kid tell
like a deuk sweemin
leukin lown, but wi fast wee feet
fae The Mankit Deuk, by Keeks Mc
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-man...
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Saltire Sessions: Gerda Stevenson
The Saltire Society talks to Gerda Stevenson – actress, writer, director & musician – about storytelling, the Scots language, loss, & Gerda’s new #shortstory collection CAT WUMMIN, published by @luathpress.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93G...
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Seein as Valentine's Day is comin up, how no hae a luik at oor guide tae the Scots leid as it's yaised in waddins?
Fun oot aboot folk gettin mairried oot o kirks, folk that hae a haunfastin, ir folk that dinnae bother wi a waddin - they jist hae a bidie-in.
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Thir a #Scots sang wirkshoap oan in Embra oan Setturday, 8th Mairch, at the @scotstorycentre.bsky.social, as pairt o the North Atlantic sang convention.
www.northatlanticsong.com/home
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The haill clanjamfrie: Whit’s sae braw aboot Scots
Friday 13 Mairch 2026
18:00 - 19:30
rse.org.uk/event/the-ha...
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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye
Proposals invited exploring #C20th literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English. Deadline 2 Feb
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
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Address to a Haggis
youtu.be/90XI__SI4rw?...
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Around #BurnsNight our website is the most popular poetry website in the world. 100,000+ hits on Address To A Haggis page alone. (Extra bandwidth required).
Our website has resources for anyone planning a haggis, whisky & poetry happening + much more.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/burns-night/
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Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals
2 Feb @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social – free
Jennifer Smith & Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource – Speak for Yersel – which sets out to map dialect use in Scots throughout Scotland
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-speaks...
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Who was Robert Burns?
Join us on a SAHA Conversation with Dr Paul Malgrati ( @paulmalgrati.bsky.social | @thinkuhi.bsky.social @insuhi.bsky.social ) and learn more about Scotland’s National Bard and the celebration of his life and works that takes place on his birthday, January 25h.
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CFP: “Our three-voiced country”: 20th-century cross-currents in Gaelic & other Scottish writing
26–28 Jun 2026 @sabhalmorostaig.bsky.social, Skye
Proposals invited exploring #C20th literary interactions between #Gaelic, Scots & English. Deadline 2 Feb
#litstudies
www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/co-labhairt-...
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Whit is the truth aboot Burns? In 2023, Neil Mackay wrote a piece luikin at oor National Bard, originally publishit in The Herald.
Reproducit oan the Scottish Poetry Library website.
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/the-truth-ab...
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The Centre fir Robert Burns Studies an its Director Professor Pauline Mackay ir wantin tae hear aboot how folk merk Burns Nicht.
Dae ye hae somethin special fir yer denner?
Maybe ye recite some poetry, sing ir lug-in tae sangs?
#scotslanguage
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