The Dictionaries of the Scots Language tell us that tattie bogle is a term for a “scarecrow set up in a potato field” - but ...
The Scots have hundreds of words for snow - more than the Inuit reputedly do, researchers have found. Academics cataloguing different Scots words for the white stuff have officially logged 421 terms, ...
The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) tell us that this term describes anything “dirty, muddy, slimy [or] disagreeable”. DSL’s first citation comes from Zachary Boyd’s The Last Battell of the ...
In his National Theatre of Scotland show Through the Shortbread Tin, Martin O’Connor sets out to debunk lazy stereotypes ...