Scots Word of the week

Hoast n., v. a cough, to cough

The Scots language excels in providing onomatopoeic words for winter ailments. Just saying “hoast oot yer craig” has the desired effect of clea...
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Scots Word of the Week is written by Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk

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First Sunday in Advent

Be watchful, be ye tentie! This reading from the Gospel of Mark Chapter 13:33-37 marks the first Sunday in Advent. The next reading will be broadcast on Sunday 7 December.

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The Frisian and Scots Connection

04th December

The Fryske Akademy (Frisian Academy) in conjunction with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, is to hold an internatio...
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John C L Gibson

26th November

John C L Gibson's plan to translate the Old Testament into Scots was hampered by age and infirmity. In this obituary in the Scotsman, Graeme Auld d...
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Gaun Yersel, Scottish Government!

24th November

Scots is making inroads into the world of official strategies. Two Scottish Government documents published this autumn have Scots words or phrases ...
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St Andrew's Day

SLC is celebrating Saint Andrew’s day with poems and songs from Scotland and overseas.
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Paolo Nutini A Man's A Man

Paisley born Paolo Nutini often sings Burns’ internationalist anthem, A Man’s A Man for Aa That at his concerts. Here he performs the song at the Glasgow Carling Academy.
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Saint Andrew - what's in a name?

Saint Andrew was the younger brother of Saint Peter, both fishermen from Galilee in the Holy Land, and followers of Jesus. The orginal form of his name – Andreas – is Greek, but we do not know what his Aramaic name was. Andrew lived during the late first century BC and early 1st century AD and was an early Christian preacher. According to legend, he was eventually put to death by crucifixion but died on an x-shaped cross because he thought he was unworthy to die the same way as Christ, though there is no consistent tradition of an x-shaped cross until well into the Middle Ages. Legend also states that his relics were brought to Constan...
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Joyce Falconer Mither Scotland

Well known actress and former star of BBC Scotland’s River City, Joyce Falconer is also a poet and writer. Here she reads her poetic celebration of Scotland’s varied cultures, Mither Scotland

For more information about Joyce Falconer visit www.joycefalconer.com
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Freedom Come All Ye

Freedom Come All Ye is Scotland’s international anthem. Listen to Irish traditional music legend Luke Kelly’s version of the song on youtube

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L

For more information about the song visit Dick Gaughan’s web site.
http://www.dickgaughan.co.uk/s

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Mony a Midder's Son

Fair Isle singer Lise Sinclair recorded the song Mony a Midder’s son for Shetland composition Ivver Entrancin Wis. The song combines Arabic and Shetland flavours and was written as a response to the war in Iraq.

Read more about Lise and buy her CDs on her myspace site
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Bliss the Dawin

Wullie Hershaw is an English teacher from Fife. This song was composed as part of a Mass for Saint Andrew’s Day and appeared in its text form in Lallans 59. You can buy Wullie’s CD from 39 McKenzie Crescent, Lochgelly, Fife, KY59LT price £10 including p&p. The full "Mass in Scots for Saint Andrae" was published in Lallans No 59 in 2001.
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Twa Corbies

Search on the internet for the Twa Corbies and you’ll see how much of an impact this Scots ballad has had on the worlds of poetry and traditional music. Here is a Danish version of the song by Norwegian folk-rock group, Folque. You can read the Scots words at http://www.twocrows.co.uk/twa_

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At Hame wi Charles Murray

Charles Murray (1864-1941), born and brought up in Alford on Donside, was the most well known Scots poet of the first half of the last century. He wrote in a lively and bold form of Scots drawn from the language of his own Donside. His first collection, Hamewith, was so popular that he came to be known as “Hamewith” himself. It wasn’t only in the North East but wherever the Lowland tongue was used, in and outwith Scotland, everyone youn...

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