It can inspire contempt as mere "slang" or awe as the language of Robert Burns and Allan Ramsay. Scots has long provoked very different reactions - not least politically. Some diehard unionists detect ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken today in Scotland, but rather a stage-Scots – essentially English ...

Lee Reynolds, Northern Ireland’s new Ulster Scots commissioner, is a thoughtful and intelligent man. Yet even he is wrestling with the fundamental contradiction of his office: the Ulster Scots ...