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Angus and Tayside Dialect
The dialect of what is now Angus and Tayside falls somewhere between Central and Northern Scots. Strictly speaking, the speech of, say, Dundee and the area to the west of the city, is the same as the dialect spoken in Edinburgh and Glasgow, called Central Scots. The differences between these citi... more
David Ogston's Church Wedding service in Scots
David Ogston's Scots language wedding service isn't as well known as perhpas it should be. You can see it at the following web site.
http://www.monikie.org.uk/wedd more
David Ogston
On a cauld Januar mornin in 1980, a wee curn o fowk frae St. John’s Kirk set oot for Balerno in sairch o a new meinister. As we herkent til a delichtfu an eimaginative sermon, we war awaur that here wes a rerr speirit. The letter o applicatioun that brocht us ti Balerno haed been haund-wrutten ... more
Spinkies
“Eh, siccan bonnie floueries!” Who visited the old woman on the night before she died and what do her last words mean. Gavin Sprott conjures up a strange, unsettling world in the farmlands of his native Angus.
This story first appeared in Lallans.
There wes this man and his faimly, hi... more
Anniversary of oldest surviving document in Scots
The month of March marks the anniversary of the oldest entire text in Scots, strictly speaking. On 12 March 1380 (1379 old calendar) Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk put his seal to a letter (see text below) which is now the oldest original document – wholly in Scots – to survive. To this we may ... more
Dundonian Tea-Towel is just the thing
A tea towel with various phrases in Dundonian - the local dialect of Scots - has gone on sale and is proving very popular, the Evening Telegraph and Post reported this week. The 'Dundonian Dialect Cloot' went on sale at various outlets in Dundee during 2008 and has been selling very well among bo... more
Jean Redpath
Greentrax Recordings have reissued Jean Redpath's album 'Songs of Lady Nairn' as a tribute to the Scottish Year of Homecoming. Originally recorded in the USA 1986, it has never before been readily available in the UK or Europe. It contains tracks of Jean Redpath singing Lady Nairn's songs accompa... more
Scots poetry used to create theatre panels.
The Scots words used by William Soutar in his poetry have been used in two new large theatre panels created by embroidery experts in Perth. Unveiled this week at the AK Bell library theatre, the panels hang on either side of the stage. Perth Embroiderers' Guild were commissioned to create the pie... more
Soutar poetry in song
Perth songwriter Jim Malcolm has been inspired to write new songs using the poetry of William Soutar. At the Soutar Theatre event to unveil the new embroidered panels this week, he introduced a song he is currently working on, 'Hal o the Wynd'. He explained 'This poem seemed to fit into a song ve... more
Billy Kay on 'The Scottish World'
Billy Kay is tae gie a talk anent ‘The Scottish World’ at the Abertay Historical Society on Wadensday 12 December, 6 for 6.30pm, at the Discovery Point, Dundee. Awbody is walcome, memmers or no. For mair anent the wark o Billy Kay please clap yer moose on this link: www.billykay.co.uk/ more
Langage Conferance
The Forum for Speirings anent the Leids o Scotland an Ulster (Forum for Research in the Languages of Scotland and Ulster) is tae haud a wan-day confeerance cryed ‘Language, History and Place: Name Studies in Scotland and Ulster’ at the AK Bell Leebrary, Perth, fae 10am an skails at 5pm. Amang... more
Perth Burns Club
The Perth Burns Club is tae haud its fowert Yearly Day o Scots Culture in the theatre o the AK Bell Leebrary, York Place, Perth. Stertin aff at 1pm, the will be fower 40-meenit papers gien bi the follaein fowk: Dr Kenneth Simpson (the Versity o Glesca) on ‘Epistolary Performances: Burns and the... more
Valentine proper noun, a martyred saint now associated with courtship
There were several St Valentines, none of them Scots, but this does
not mean the Scots language lacks romance. The earliest mention of St
Valentine in The Dictionary of the Scots Language is over 500 years
old, in Dunbar's Poem The Twa Merriit Wemen and the Wedo and, as this
is a satirica... more