Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. The banner posted across Scots Wikipedia bears an important notice: “Followin recent revelations, Scots ...

"A little bit of color in our lives is gone," linguist says Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the ...

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

ALTHOUGH spoken Scots appears to be in danger of dying out altogether as a living language, there is now considerable interest in Scots as a means of cultural expression. The poet Sydney Goodsir Smith ...

One early example comes from a complaint letter in the Perthshire Constitutional & Journal in February 1850. The subject of the letter was a local petitioner who, having failed to gain signatures from ...

What would ye twa cotters ken o’ battle, eh? I bet ye Lallybroch tumshies will turn arse and run at first blast o’ cannon fire… Pithy Scots brogue and throwaway insults punctuate Outlander, the ...

“I have been on a poetic journey through Ulster-Scots for quite a few years and creating my own collection of contemporary verse is an important milestone on that journey,” says Alan, who is ...

Rude, crude and extremely funny, “Scottish Twitter” has garnered much attention in recent years for its uniquely Celtic wit – and for the specific ways it uses language. Journalist Eve Livingston’s ...

As far as I can remember, during my whole time at school in Fraserburgh, from 1993 to 2006, we never read anything in Scots in class. Aside from those few bairns that took part in an optional Burns ...

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RAB: My favourite word in Scots would be 'braw'. NARRATOR: Rab Wilson is a man who lives his life in Scots. He writes it, he speaks it, and he makes his living from it. RAB: You been busy today?

Now, some big news for "Harry Potter" fans. The first book of the series, "Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone," has been translated into its 80th language, and it comes out today. What's that ...