In the tiny fishing village of Cromarty, on the tip of Scotland's Black Isle, the last speaker of the local dialect has died. Host Rachel Martin... Scottish Dialect's Last Speaker Dies RACHEL MARTIN, ...

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...

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 ...

They came to remember the Battle of Culloden of 1746, when the British army crushed the Jacobite rising. The ancient language repressed after that defeat—Gaelic—was everywhere at this event: heard in ...

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 ...

In the aftermath of her passing, it was reported that Queen Elizabeth could speak the local dialect of Balmoral and the region around it. This dialect of the north-east of Scotland – called the Doric ...

Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day. The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, ...

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 ...

Last week, residents of Scotland voted not to break away from the U.K. in a much-anticipated referendum on Scottish independence. For those of us with a special fascination with culture and language, ...

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