Scots Language Centre

Scots Language Centre

@scotslanguage.bsky.social

Email info@scotslanguage.com for enquiries or to let us know about your work with Scots! https://www.scotslanguage.com/ Scots Language Resource Centre Ltd is a Scottish Charity, SCO21747, regulated by the Scottish Charities Register (OSCR)

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Scots Language Centre
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Dae ye bide in Scotland? Are ye aged atween 11 - 25? Dae ye spik Scots or Gaelic? Young Scots YSHive are leukin fir gallus young folk tae jine the Scots Leid Panel! Follow the link fir mair info an tae apply fir this grand opportunity 🗣️ young.scot/get-involved...

young.scotJoin the Scottish Languages PanelYoung Scot’s YSHive is looking for a group of 20 young people aged 11 to 25 to join the Scottish Languages Panel, in two groups, one focused on Scots and one on Gaelic. You’ll have opportunities to c...
Scots Language Centre
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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.

Scots Language Centre
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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 📚 🗣️

Scots Language Centre
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🗣️ 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-...

scottishbooktrust.comThe Scots Language Publication GrantThe Scots Language Publication Grant exists to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots.
Scots Language Centre
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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
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📣 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.

Scots Language Centre
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Find oot mair here: bit.ly/SLCDirector

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Could you be the nixt Director o the Centre for the Scots Leid? www.scotslanguage.com/articles/vie...

scotslanguage.comScotslanguage.com - Recruitment - Director of the Scots Language CentreThe Scots Language Centre seeks a director to be the strategic and operational leader of the Centre. You will  work closely with the Board of Trustees, our Treasurer, education and information officer...
Scots Language Centre
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'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...

scrennie.comTods, Plaidies and Fairy-ThimmlesTranslating 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…
Scots Language Centre
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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...

scottishwildlifetrust.org.ukWords of the Wild | Scottish Wildlife TrustIn celebration of our 60th anniversary, our Words of the Wild campaign encourages everyone to share their nature stories.
Scots Language Centre
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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/...

nls.ukJames VI and the Union of the Crowns | National Library of ScotlandLearn about how James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603, uniting crowns and shaping culture, religion, and politics for generations.
Scots Language Centre
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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...

youtube.comThe Royal Society of EdinburghAs 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...
Scots Language Centre
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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

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk

Exploring the Jackie Kay Archive 28 May @natlibscot.bsky.social – free, booking required Explore the personal archive of author, poet & former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay. Curator Dan Sheehy will share his favourite discoveries from cataloguing her lifetime of work #poetry www.nls.uk/whats-on/jac...

nls.ukExploring the Jackie Kay archive | National Library of ScotlandLearn about Jackie Kay's archive and the process of cataloguing it.

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Association for Scottish Literature
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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

Scots Language Centre
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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.

scotslanguage.comScotslanguage.com - The Language of WeddingsDown 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
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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-...

smo.uhi.ac.uk2026 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
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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/

scottishpoetrylibrary.org.ukRobert Burns by Greg MoodieA 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
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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...

eventbrite.co.ukWho Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing RevealsIn this paper, Jennifer Smith and Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource - Speak for Yersel