It is understood the bill will describe Gaelic and Scots as official languages of Scotland alongside English. Under the new bill, special status could be awarded to areas meeting at least one of ...

IEnglish Language. The Year's Work in English Studies, Vol. 102, Issue. 1, p. 1. Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever ...

We are fortunate enough in Scotland to have three official languages. While English is by far the most commonly spoken, the ...

He hammed up some preposterous Scottish ... Gaelic is still spoken regularly by 58,000 of us – or 1.1 per cent of our population – every one of whom, incidentally, is also fluent in English.

Glasgow-born broadcaster Andrew Marr has apologised after describing the prominence of Gaelic signs in Scotland as “offensive ... the Gaeltacht and the English-speaking ...

Broadcaster Andrew Marr has hit out at "ridiculous" Gaelic signs in parts of Scotland he says have no connection to the ancient language. Marr questioned why signage is visible in Edinburgh and ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions arranged in alphabetical order. In an English dictionary you'll find words beginning with ‘a’ at the front and ‘z’ at the back.

A virtual reality experience which will “pull viewers into another world” will be created on one of Scotland’s islands to grow the use of Gaelic. Islay’s Gaelic Centre is to receive £ ...

highlighting issues surrounding the public perception of a connection between Scottish Gaelic and the independence movement ...

At present, dozens of collections of Ulster-Scots poetry sit on the shelves of libraries across the world. Many of these books are rare and difficult to find, or are too fragile to be handled any more ...

It is not a Scottish poppy v English poppy thing – they are both sold to raise money to support the Armed Forces and veterans’ community but there is a noticeable difference between what they ...