TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short dance, lip-sync, comedy an talent videos." ...

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Imagine a world in which weather was only dull or dismal but never dreich, or in which you chatted or nattered to friends but never blethered. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

It’s hard to imagine this funny, eloquent champion of Ulster-Scots being ill-tempered, but she’s adamant this is the case, ...

Poet Liz Niven reads an excerpt from her poem ‘Let’s Hear Whit the Dragon’s Goat Tae Say’ to students at a Scots Scuil writing workshop. She encourages them to draft their own poems and discusses how ...

Take a look at an Irish passport. You’ll find lines from the poet, James Orr: "The hedge-hauntin' blackbird, on ae fit whyles restin', Wad fain heat the tither in storm-rufflet wing" Orr was an Ulster ...

Last week, residents of Scotland voted not to break away from the U.K. in a much-anticipated referendum on Scottish independence. For those of us with a special fascination with culture and language, ...

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Poet Anne McMaster explores how writing has moved from the margins to the mainstream for women, and how Ulster-Scots has been embraced and revitalised by a new generation. Show more Anne McMaster grew ...

This year brings two milestones for Scotland’s Gaelic and Scots-language publishers, with Acair Books and Black & White Publishing’s children’s Scots imprint, Itchy Coo, celebrating significant ...

He writes in the mither leid, the mother tongue. But nothing his own mum could ever understand. Paul Malgrati has just had his first slim volume of poems published in Scots. This little book is firmly ...