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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Oor content creator Elisabeth Flett haed an awfy guid blether wi Through the Shortbread Tin’s Martin O’Connor aboot the show an aboot Scots Leid an aw! Link tae the hale interview: www.scotslanguage.com/articles/vie...

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A wee Scots Leid education update frae oor Director, @drfairbairn.bsky.social ! 📚 🗣️ Learn mair here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/curric...

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

📍 ‘Celebratin the Scots Leid wi Taylor Dyson’ at St Andrews Heritage Museum Heidliners: Taylor Dyson, Eileen Budd an Rose Byers

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Finola Scott posin fir a wee photie at the ‘New Writing Scotland 44: Naming the Snakes’ Glesca launch, scrievin in haund! 👏📚 Scott’s wirk fir ‘Naming the Snakes’ is the Scots leid poyum ‘The Maiden Says Awa’, heid ower tae the @asls.org.uk website tae buy the buik an gie it a gander.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oor content creator Elisabeth Flett haed a richt guid blether wi Common Tongue’s Olivia Caw at the Edinburgh Fringe last month! Heid ower tae oor website for the hale interview 💻 www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oor Director in schuil, makkin siccar that hunners o bairns get gweed Scots leid lair ilka wikk o the year. Ess wikk bairns hae been learnin aboot links wi ither leids an wirds lik reek, tassie, flit an ettercap 📚 🗣️

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📚 Scots Bookbug wi oor Education Specialist Laura Green at Edinburgh International Book Festival📚

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Leukin fir somethin tae dae wi yir weans at the Edinburgh International Book Festival this month? Come alang tae oor EIBF events! www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oor YouTube channel is noo ower at @scots-language-centre - gie us a wee follow tae keep up wi awthing we post on the platfairm 📹

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We’re pleased tae share that oor new Director o the Scots Language Centre is Dr. Jamie Fairbairn. Jamie will be stairtin in the role in August.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Are ye based in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Dundee an leukin fir somethin tae dae wi yir wee yins this weekend? Gang alang tae the @natlibscot.bsky.social DC Thompson events tae celebrate 90 years o Oor Wullie an the Broons! 🗞️ Learn mair aboot the events here: www.nls.uk/whats-on/the...

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🗣️ The Scots Language Publication Grant is open fir applications! 🗣️ The grant exists tae support publishers tae publish and promote work scrived in the Scots leid. Send in yir applications by ⏰ 12 (noon) on Wed 2 Sept 2026 ⏰ Mair info can be found here: www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...

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The Scots Language Publication Grant

The Scots Language Publication Grant exists to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Oor Scots Language Education Officer, Laura, haed an awfy excitin participant at her Scots Bookbug session at Borders Book Festival last week: a relative o Robert Coltart, the screiver o the weel-kent scots sang ‘Ally Bally’! 🍬

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📣 One week left to apply! We are seeking applications for our Scots Scriever residency - and this year, the focus is on Shetland. This is a unique opportunity for a writer to create original work in Shaetlan while championing the language across communities.

The Islands of Shetland by Herman Moll, published 1745

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

If ye find yersel at the Borders Book Festival wi yer wee yins, how no bring them alang tae a Scots Bookbug? 📅Sunday, 14th June 🕜2.35pm - 3.00pm Free, no ticket required bordersbookfestival.org

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Borders Book Festival – 11-14 June 2026

Join us for four fabulous days of talks, comedy, live music, food & drink, and much, much more…

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

'When Jennie first meets the tod-like chiel, she cries enquiringly 'Quaick?' This Scots equivalent of English quack has been used to represent duck noises since the 17th century...' Read aw aboot Susan Rennie's pernickitie wirk o the owersettin o 'Jemima Puddle-Duck'.⬇️ scrennie.com/2026/05/16/t...

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Tods, Plaidies and Fairy-Thimmles

Translating Beatrix Potter’s classic Farmyard Tale The rural setting and classic style of Beatrix Potter’s tale of the hapless Jemima Puddle-Duck makes it a natural candidate for transl…

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Could you scrieve aboot the simmer-haar comin aff the watter in June, how mochie it can get in August, ir the dubbs oan the road in October? Hae a look at @scotwildlife.bsky.social's competition, whaur ye can pit in an entry in Scots, Gaelic ir English. scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/wordsofthewi...

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Words of the Wild | Scottish Wildlife Trust

In celebration of our 60th anniversary, our Words of the Wild campaign encourages everyone to share their nature stories.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

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. opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

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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James VI and the Union of the Crowns | National Library of Scotland

Learn about how James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603, uniting crowns and shaping culture, religion, and politics for generations.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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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The Royal Society of Edinburgh

As Scotland’s National Academy, we use the combined knowledge of our 1,800-strong Fellowship to provide independent expert advice to policymakers and inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 08/03/2026

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...

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.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 01/03/2026

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

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.

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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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The Mankit Deuk

Ah willed a miracle / wi ivry last oonce o strength Ah haed / but nane cam /

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 10/02/2026

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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Saltire Sessions: Gerda Stevenson

YouTube video by The Saltire Society

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

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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Scotslanguage.com - The Language of Weddings

Down through the ages, getting married in Scotland has entailed a number of customs and traditions, and, of course, if a wedding was taking place in eastern or southern Scotland, or the Northern Isles...

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29/01/2026

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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2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

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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Robert Burns by Greg Moodie

A page dedicated to Burns Night, Robert Burns's poems and contemporary responses to the life and work of Scotland's national poet.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 22/01/2026

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 Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals

In this paper, Jennifer Smith and Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource - Speak for Yersel

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Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) @sahavoice.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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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A SAHA Conversation with Dr Paul Malgrati

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 05/01/2026

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2026 ASL Annual Conference - Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

‘Our three-voiced country’: Twentieth-century cross-currents in Gaelic and other Scottish writing

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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 truth about Burns

Robert Burns fact or fiction

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Scots Language Centre @scotslanguage.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 29/06/2025

“The late David Kaye recalled hearing a snatch of conversation on the street in the Gorbals … in the 1950s. In response to a neighbour’s question, Ach, are you weel?, came the response: Oy, vay’z mir, ich hob ayn gey sair heid” —via @scotslanguage.bsky.social www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...

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Scotslanguage.com - Scots-Yiddish: A Dialect Re-imagined

The Jewish immigrants from Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe brought to every city in which they settled a mother language, the mamaloshen, known as Yiddish, along with Hebrew, their language of relig...

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