This Scots form of hotel is recorded in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) through a number of 19th-century examples. Sir Walter Scott wrote in St Ronan’s Well (1824): “They maun hae a ...

The Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) tell us that to mump is either, “to utter in an inarticulate manner, to mumble, mutter” or ...

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 ...

The internet was ablaze earlier this week after it was discovered that the bulk of the Wikipedia pages for Scotland were written by an American teenager who doesn't even know the Scots language. A ...