A new children's book aimed at encouraging school pupils to engage with the Scots language has been written in memory of a Dumfries woman. The Lois Sherret Trust was founded in memory of the ...
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) document the long history of this term for a good-luck gift, typically given to mark “an ...
Tragicomedy will be performed outdoors in Northern Irish countryside as part of new festival celebrating Irish playwright ...
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) tell us that broukit means “soiled with soot or streaked with dirt”. Nineteenth-century examples show that the term was often used to describe children.