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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@scotslanguage.bsky.social · last mo.

🗣️ 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-...

The Scots Language Publication Grant

The Scots Language Publication Grant exists to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots.

scottishbooktrust.com

Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · last mo.

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’! 🍬

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’! Photo of Laura and relative of Robert Coltart smiling together Bild
National Library of Scotland@natlibscot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 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.

The Islands of Shetland by Herman Moll, published 1745
Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'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...

Tods, Plaidies and Fairy-Thimmles

Translating 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…

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Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

Words of the Wild | Scottish Wildlife Trust

In celebration of our 60th anniversary, our Words of the Wild campaign encourages everyone to share their nature stories.

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Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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/...

James VI and the Union of the Crowns | National Library of Scotland

Learn about how James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603, uniting crowns and shaping culture, religion, and politics for generations.

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Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

The Royal Society of Edinburgh

As 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...

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Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 · 5mo ago

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...

Scots Language Centre@scotslanguage.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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.com - The Language of Weddings

Down 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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