Bill Wilson – What a Tumshie!

He wants supermarkets to label fruit and veg in the Scots language.
The West of Scotland MSP, a long-time campaigner for Scots to be given equal status as a recognised language, raised the issue with Asda, Tesco and Sainsbury’s.
I’ve written before about people who feel the need to talk as if they were acting out a [...]

Mind Your Language

Thanks to today’s Independent.
“Celtic dialects from across Britain are featured in a new atlas of the world’s dead and endangered languages. Manx and Cornish have been declared “extinct” languages and Scottish Gaelic and Welsh will both need help if they are going to survive the 21st century, experts said.

The latest edition of Unesco’s Atlas of [...]

Scots Language Project

Now this is fine. Learning some of the great Scots words is good.
Especially for Mr and the future Mrs Cake and Missy forbye…..

More Scots Language Stuff and Nonsense

When I went to school many years ago there were certain linguistic cardinal sins. If some poor unfortunate child said “Ah’m arenae” instead of I’m not or “wir” instead or our, they could be hauled out in front of the class and skelped with one of Lochgelly’s finest.
Now we find that not only are these [...]

Taysiders In Space

With reference to my previous post.
This is hilarious.
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Michty Me Maw!

Did you know one of the languages that the Scottish Parliament translates into is Scots?
This is from the home page:
“We want tae mak siccar that as mony folk as can is able tae find oot aboot whit the Scottish Pairlament dis and whit wey it warks. We hae producit [...]

Hondootedly Mossis.

Two ducks crossing a road in Ballymena. The one at the back says “Quack! quack!” the other one says “I’m going as quack as I can!”
I notice an amusing cutting in Private Eye this week. It’s an extract from a Northern Ireland Water Information leaflet which, following a passage in English, offers a translation in [...]