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Parliamentary Motions and Questions from Sessions 1 and 2
Motions
S2M-4940 Rob Gibson (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): Congratulations to Eejits That the Parliament congratulates Itchy Coo publications on the success of its book, Eejits, a best selling Scots translation of Roald Dahl's children's classic, The Twits, and on the work of its develop... more
Parliamentary Motions on the National Languages Strategy
S3M-1768.1 Hugh O’Donnell: International Education— As an amendment to motion (S3M-1768) in the name of Maureen Watt, insert at end "and calls for the Scottish Government to bring forward a comprehensive national languages strategy including a rolling programme to introduce a second langu... more
Parliamentary Questions about the National Language Strategy (Current Session)
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament
S3W-8784 Cathy Peattie: To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to develop the proposals in the na... more
Shetland Times bookshop
Books in and about the Shetland dialect. This site also has more general material about Shetland.
www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/
Childrens books
Books for kids in Shetlandic and English.
www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/childr
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Conversation Now Translated into Scots
The Scottish Government’s 'National Conversation' document, published in the autumn of 2007, has now been translated into the Scots language. Ministers Linda Fabiani and Maureen Watt are to be congratulated for taking the decision to include Scots. Both of the ministers, who are currently explo... more
Government resolve to audit Scots language
The Scottish Government has now announced its intention to hold an audit into the state of provision for the Scots language in accordance with its election manifesto pledge. The audit is needed to identify (a) what baseline information is available on current levels of provision for Scots, and (b... more
MSP insists on help for Scottish Dictionaries
On 9 April Dr Bill Wilson, MSP for the West of Scotland, lodged a Scottish Parliamentary motion calling for a stamp to be issued to commemorate the 200 anniversary of the first Scots language dictionary. He also called for funding in order to create a complete modern Scots dictionary. Wilson cont... more
MSP calls for national company
A Highland MSP has called for the establishment of a new ‘national company’ to co-ordinate strategy and funding for traditional arts organisations in the wake of Scottish Arts Council cuts. This week in an article in The Scotsman, Rob Gibson, SNP MSP for the Highlands and Islands, was critica... more
Register now for Government Conference
The Scottish Government is planning to hold a one-day conference at Stirling University on Monday 9 February 2009. The conference is aimed at organisations or individuals with an interest in the Scots language, and will have two aims: to formally present the findings of the Scottish Government... more
Government Announces Support For Scots
At a government-organised conference at Stirling University, held on Monday 9 February, Linda Fabiani, Minister for Culture, announced that the Scottish Government would take over the current funding provision from the Scottish Arts Council in respect of the main Scots language organisations. Fab... more
Kay and Riddoch on Scots
This week (Saturday 14 February) Scots language activist, broadcaster and writer Billy Kay was speaking with Lesley Riddoch on her radio programme ‘Aftermath’. Billy began by speaking about discrimination against the Scots-speaking community, citing examples encountered by speakers at offici... more
Scots language on 2011 census
The General Register Office for Scotland has revealed in its report 'Scotland's Census 2011 Recommendations on Content' that the Scots language will be included on a census of Scotland for the first time. Campaigners who have fought long and hard since 1993 for a question on Scots language abilit... more
Concerns grow over 2011 census
In recent weeks Scots language users, campaigners and organisations have contacted the General Register Office for Scotland, and the relevant minister, Jim Mather, to express their concerns about the place of the Scots language in the 2011 census.
Under current proposals respondents in Scotlan... more
Scottish Newspapers Becoming Less Scottish
A new and fascinating book by Dr Fiona Douglas suggests that home-grown Scottish newspapers have become much less Scottish since the advent of devolution while English-based papers are growing in Scotland. Dr Douglas, who, since the 1990’s, has studied the use of both the Scots language and Sco... more
Third European Charter Report Released
The Third periodical report relating to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages has been released in accordance with Article 15 of the Charter. This Report, which relates to languages in the United Kingdom, runs to 364 pages and will interest any one wishing to learn what officald... more
Government to set up Scots advisory group
Further to the government conference held on the Scots language, at the University of Stirling on 9 February 2009, and the publication of those proceedings, the Scottish Government is now seeking to establish a working group to take advice and make suggestions how best to move forward from the Sc... more
MSP's controversy in the aisles
Dr Bill Wilson, MSP for West of Scotland, has proposed that supermarkets and other shops in Scotland should label produce with their Scots names as well as the English equivalents. In response to this idea, it has been reported that Richard Todd, of the Scottish Retail Consortium, has said that t... more
SLD seeks Outreach Assistant
Scots Language Dictionaries have advertised the post of Outreach/education assistant (3 days a week), £18,000 (pro rata).
The successful candidate will assist in a number of important areas promoting Scots Language Dictionaries as an organisation and working with external bodies. The post invo... more
Government publishes languages strategy
The Scottish Executive is asking for interested individuals and organisations to respond to its recently published Strategy for Scotland's
Languages. According to the Executive the strategy highlights the key areas of language policy that are currently being promoted by the government. Our a... more
Aboot the Ainu
Whit d'ye mak o this?
- http://www.iht.com/articles/20
Thir's ae braw line, juist at the end, that gar me lauch out loud: "It's not healthy to keep blaming discrimination or history, and not work and pay taxes..." more
