An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link An American has written and edited thousands of articles on the official Wikipedia site for the centuries-old Scots language. The Wikipedia user ...

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 ...

Much of the Scottish-language version of Wikipedia is actually written by an American who doesn’t even speak the language — resulting in comically-bad entries that read like they came 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 ...

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 ...

This is one of those stories which seems like it might be a kind of “haha, how weird, the internet, am I right?!” type situation but which is actually pretty damned serious. It’s also only partially a ...

At the beginning of 2004 anyone will be able to access the definitive usage of any Scots word, ancient or modern, for free. The process of putting both the Scottish National Dictionary and the ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...