Editors have shared the modern everyday words that are set to be included in the updated Scots language dictionary. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited ...

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IF you have ever wanted a word to describe the sound made by walking in wet mud or perhaps that of a quaking bog, then this volume of nature-themed Scots words is a delight to leaf through. The idea ...

Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...

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TO celebrate the Scots language and in the spirit of Burns day looming, The Scottish Sun in conjunction with Harper Collins has 50 copies of the Scots Dictionary to give away. With nearly 1,800 ...

OXFORD, England, May 1 (UPI) -- A handwritten dictionary of Scottish words and phrases compiled by James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson, has turned up at Oxford University. The Bodleian ...

Editors have included more than 40 Scottish words including the slang term for the scrotum which is defined as a 'foolish or annoying' person THE word bawbag has been added to the latest edition of ...

While the UK is only home to around 69 million people, there are dozens of regional languages and dialects spoken across the British Isles. From Cornish to Scottish Gaelic, Manx, and Welsh, each ...