Less accurate about pigs learning to talk, so swings and roundabouts.
Scriever, Gomerel. Scriever an Furthsetter o pish watter: a scots zine. A micht dicht ma posts noo an agane. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #Scots #ScotsPoetry #ScotsScrievin #Gaidhlig #Independence #Scotland #ScottishIndependence #Music #Zines #ScottishZines
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Less accurate about pigs learning to talk, so swings and roundabouts.
Meet our Scots Language Publication Grant Awardees 2025! ✍️ Congratulations to all the brilliant publishers who will receive funding this year, and thanks to the funders that make this grant possible. www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
RAT'LL DAE #DENSCO
Hert's thumpin here #DENSCO
Bang on.
Get these gemms back on Sky so A cannae watch them 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Happy Birthday to Robert Fergusson, born #OTD 275 years ago! For more info on what we've been up to on Project Fergusson as the official end of the project approaches, see our website: robert-fergusson.glasgow.ac.uk We've got online exhibitions, other resources, project updates and much more!
YAS! A ainlie gaed back ontae the X in 2023 tae dae the Scotstober an A haenae been back! Gled it's here noo.
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🚨Annooncement!🚨 Here yer #Scotstober 2025 wirds! A'm sharin on aw platforms, but maistly follaein on BlueSky this year. A'm luikin forret tae yer warks 😁 Wirds as text ablow
Nae bor 😃
Heezin a licht. Hoisting a light. #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #lamppost #streetlamp #hill #rock #sky #people
IMHO Tartan Noir writers are the least likely to include Scots. They're working in a commercial genre for English speakers where the aim is to sell units &, given it's a global market, the setting is essentially irrelevant. It's about telling a good tale (in English) so that it can sell anywhere.
I only started this conversation so you could punt your wares 😅 Casualty's on in a bit, so have a good evening 🙂👍
100% agree with the "English literature"/"literature in English" distinction. What intrigues me with your examples is, do they include non-English languages? E.g. does the study of American literature include Spanish and native languages? Quite tricky for one person to teach, I'd imagine 🙂
Re Hamlet, I think the equivalent analogy would be an English writer writing a play in Danish set in Denmark and then wondering why it's considered Danish literature. You're right about RLS of course. True of all writers. Only they can produce their work, no one else 🙂
Thanks 👍 Scots is a leid in it's ain richt, o coorse. O thon Av nae dout. I just think that if you write in English then you should expect others to consider your work to be a part of English literature. Gin ye flee wi the craws ye get shot wi the craws, an aw that 🙂
And apologies if I've forgotten something obvious because I haven't read it for AGES but, based on the text alone, what's Scottish about The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde? It's in English and it's set in London. And Wikipedia tells me it was written in Bournemouth.
Re Burns, the title of "Poems, Chiefly In the Scottish Dialect" is - in English - "chiefly" suggests another language is present i.e. English - "dialect" begs the question "Of which language?" i.e. English If Scottish writers use someone else's language we shouldn't grumble if they "claim" us
Looking forward to this halesome tribute to Robert Fergusson, the Jacobite bard of ‘Auld Reekie’. Thanks to @rhonabrown.bsky.social @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social for featuring a wee piece of mine and more importantly for linking scholarship and contemporary poetry in a way that’s only too rare still!
Twa braws in yin post. A'm black affrontit 😟
Fair tricket tae hae a poyum o mines in this here buik. It's cried Foostie Oysters, an it's a repone tae yer man's Caller Oysters. Thare'll be a gey wheen ither braw poyums in it an aw fae a hantle braw makars. Get the dammt thing bocht 😃
Whit youse up tae this wather? Cheery that the fitba's back? Blithe at the sicht o a lown blae lift an wee stuckies sookin wirms oot the gress? Wanhowp at the daith o douce humanity an common dacency? Jine the club 😃
Hopefully the BBC will stop showing any sort of art altogether, in case it has the wrong ideas in it.
A wheen Scots saws - proverbs - fae Born in Kyle, A Love Letter tae an Ayrshire Childhood. Ye can hae a total immersion experience o the guid Scots tongue in yer heid by gettin the book fae me or Amazon, or by luggin intae it on Audible. I can guarantee ye at least ane guid greet an ane big lauch!
£3000 bursaries for Scotland based novelists (including graphic novelists) with at least one existing publication, to develop a work in progress! opportunities.creativescotland.com/opportunity/...
On this day in 1986, Maradona scored the greatest header of all time, with what came to be known as the ‘head of God’. Here’s how he did it… (1/14)
it’s quite funny that my 15yo thinks the music being made now is the best music in the world and my 80yo dad thinks the best music in the world was made when *he* was 15, but the *actual* best music in the world, empirically, was made when *i* was 15. they both look so stupid lol
Braw! An mak siccar tae dingy thaim that'll greet aboot it 😀
Plans tae forder and uphaud the uise o Gaelic and Scots hae been passed by the Scots Pairliament. www.gov.scot/news/scottis...
See ma poyum "In The Chick-fil-A" in pish watter nummer 6, whilk deals with this heid on.
Denholm Elliott is the only actor named after what ET would say if he was asked what jeans were made of.
Awbodie haes thir favourite. Mines chinges aw the time, sae A'll gang for this yin the day. The dowie melodie gets haud o ma muid the noo. Cheery bye #BrianWilsonRIP youtu.be/gikGLzkKElw?...
We are talking jape of the decade...
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Still astonishing to me how a city like Glasgow - the birthplace of much great and important music - has TRNSMT as its big yearly music event. TRNSMT's the Brewdog of music festivals.
Yeah, great tune but I'd have it somewhere between 11 and 20.
Any thoughts, music peeps? :-) Scotland’s most reliable sunshine! Teenage Fanclub’s greatest songs – ranked www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
ck With You 😀
As he says, it's really personal preference. I'd swap out about 12 of those and move the others around, but it'd still be an excellent list. Good to see Escher and YLITPWICF in there. I'd include What You Do To Me and December, but it starts getting Bandwagonesque-heavy. And Some People Try To Fu
Three days to wait! Join us at 2pm THIS SUNDAY for Scowth at Anniesland Mansions, Glasgow to hear the cracking words of Nazaret Ranea and Hadley-James Hoyles as well as a fabulous line up of open mic'ers! It's our 1st birthday too! Can't wait to see you all!
A poyum in Scots fir ye:
Dichtit it aff ma phone last week efter readin yon AI patter. Duolingo can ram it.
IT'S BACK! Richt. Whit daes "wastery" mean. THE YIRD MAUN KEN!
dsl.ac.uk is doon. Repeat: DSL IS DOON Gaunnae somebodie gang ontae the ither steid (X) an get them telt? An get them telt tae get on here while ye'r at it 🙂
Not many people know that AA Milne had a much smaller brother called AAA Milne
Aye A ken it's oot thare an that. A'd raither tak the moral staund but an no hae ocht tae wi it at aw. Gin ma neebor cud growe muckle currats yaisin DDT A wadnae want tae yaise DDT masel.
Ma ain thocht is that A'd raither Scots wis keepit oot o AI's mou. A'd raither thare wis a bodie ahint ilka wird o Scots scrievin, an A'd raither journos got peyed for copy raither than a machine daein it. & A'd raither the Yird didnae hae tae dee for convenience or "cool" ideas. Yon's juist me but.
Aw it's daein insteid is killin the Yird 👍
Tae me it's mair fundamental but: juist acause ye can get awa wi it daesnae mean ye shoud dae it. Awtho gin the process is: - Get press release in Sudron - Yaise LLM tae create the story in Sudron - Yaise Scots LLM tae owerset thon intae a story in Scots Syne nae permeesion wad be needit A reck
A wee bit o thievin is still thievin.
Naw, thon's no hou it wirks. Gin A stole yer motor, is that awricht as lang as ye dinnae report it tae the polis? Oor News cannae assume they can dae it juist acause they haenae speirt.
Juist cause ye get a press release for nocht disnae mean ye hae permeesion tae owerset it intae anither leid or yaise it tae train an LLM. Glesga Uni awns the IP o its press releases.
Cannae read it due tae the pey-wa. Dae Oor News pey the IP awners o the news in Sudron or dae they juist thieve it?
Blithe St Dod's Day tae ilka Sudron bodie, nae maitter whaur they ur on the Yird. Aw the best 🏴🏴🏴🏴
Derek Adams has got Morecambe relegated
Internet says 15 year: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Heid doon dinnae stop atween Ryman's and Savers
Our Scots Language Publication Grant, designed to support publishers to publish and promote work written in Scots, is now open for applications for 2025! ✍️✨ Find out more about the grant and how to apply 👇 www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-...
Scots is the senior Germanic language o Scotland. "Aye" insteid o "yes" "Heid" insteid o "head" "Drap" insteid o "drop" "Cannae" insteid o "can't" "Maist" insteid o "most" an uisin wirds lik "skite", "scunner","dreich","wabbit","dytit","gowster","lum" aw hae the mair provonance!
For mair #Scots content on BlueSky follae: @scotslanguage.bsky.social @lairnscots.bsky.social @asls.org.uk An pit mair in yer replies tae this!
Richt here 👍
How many ex-X folk are here fae Scottish Twitter?
*Gesserant (sp)
Gesserent, int it? 😃
Finally took the time to read Colin Bramwell´s brilliant Scots translation of the great Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa. Stuart Kelly called it a ‘modern Scots language masterpiece’ in The Scotsman: this isn’t an exaggeration. (1/3)
Annual open competition for the Federation of Writers Scotland. Entries welcome in English, Scots and Gaelic for poetry, short story or flash. www.federationofwriters.scot/competition
‘Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. … What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct Scots for Pessoa’s different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing.’ Stuart Kelly on brambrella.bsky.social, for @scotsman.com: www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
It took me half an hour... 😐
A'm gled tae annoonce that A'm the first bodie IVER tae dae a parody o yon poyum 👍
Juist Tae Let Ye Ken Albert Kirk Jr (for Mither's Day, fae the Scots o Leonard fae the American o Carlos Williams) A bocht ye some flooers A got oot the Spaur that will prolly be deid by Monday awricht they ur but that handy that chape
Oh aye: A CANNAE SPEAK RUSSIAN
We’ll introduce him tae the reader while he’s sittin, his feet toukit unner him, thochtfu, govin roond. His name wis Nikolai Petrovitch Kirsanov, an he awned, twal mile fae the postin stance, a fine bit laund o twa hunner sowels, or, as he pit it ower... [etc.]
gliskit wi an air o indulgence alang the gate, an gied an answer: “Naw, sir. Nae sign.” “Nae sign?” repeatit his maister. “Naw, sir,” reponed the loon a saicont time. His maister soucht, an sat doon on a wee bink.
He wis addressin his servand, a buffie loon wi white-like doon on his chaft, an peerie, dreich een. The servand (in wham awthin, fae the turquoise ring in his lug tae the the streaky hair plaistert wi creesh an the civeelity o his movements, indicatit a chiel o the new, impruived generation)...
“Weel, Piotr, nae sign o them yet?” wis the quaisten speirt on May the 20t, 1859 by a laird o juist ower fowertie year auld, in a stoorie coat an tartan breeks, whae, bunnetless, cam oot tae the laich steps o the postin stance at S——.
Faithers an Weans by Turgenev, owersettit intae Scots by masel 👍 #scotwriterpitch2025
Robert the Bruce was crowned King of Scots on this day in 1306, and every one of us who wants Scottish independence, should remember his words before Bannockburn for “we hae the richt, and for the richt ilk man suld fecht”. (Barbour) True then, true now 🏴
Currently wirkin oan a teachin resource, fir lairners daein the @sqanews.bsky.social Scots Language Award, tae accompany this video. ...we legitimise it every time we uise it, whan we're no feart tae talk it in public, whan we refuse tae stigmatize it... youtu.be/GkKmoGn0YfY?... #Scots
Free breid. Mak a lang airm. Free bread. Help yourself. #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #photography #bread #food #foodpoverty
Hello Bluesky! We are here and keen to share our wonderful books with you. Stay tuned for all things Luath 💙
In the mid to late 80’s thrash metal was my big thing. Here’s a few found in the corner today.
NO TOSH ON A WEDNESDAY????
EVENT TOMORROW Scowth is on at Anniesland Mansions in Glasgow at 2pm with these 3 amazing featured poets & a gaggle of wonderful open mic'ers. Accessible venue, food available to buy from a beautiful varied menu & you can BYOB for a small corkage to the venue. It'll be brilliant!
Gin ye ken want tae help growe the Scots spickin community on BlueSky Share this Gin ye spick Scots tell’s yer haunle go.bsky.app/TgTrxRd
I made a Starter pack of Scottish Writers. If you’d like to be included, msg me. go.bsky.app/QVgoAEA
A novel set on the South West Coast Path. Problem is the author wants to remain anonymous, which makes it hard to sell copies as they can't do personal appearances. 😕 #BookSky #Devon #Cornwall #Walking #Hiking www.waterstones.com/book/on-the-...
Better than I. Will Hyde or Ann Onymous, I suppose 🙂
"Clare S Mudd" tho... 😅
A'd scrieve tae ma MP tae pleen, but nae dout they'd juist tell me tae switch aff the telly.
Seen a wumman wi cerebral palsy greetin on the news the day. Weel duin, Keir! 👍
Super pleased that out of 800 entries, one of the 40 longlisted poems from the Arts Richmond Changes Poetry Competition is mine - despite the typo in my name. artsrichmond.org.uk/arts-richmon...
Wholeheartedly delighted to be on the long list in this year’s Arts Richmond poetry prize. Two poems, ‘Geese’ and ‘Family Home Films’ were selected from over 800 entries & will be performed by actors in London on 1 Jun when Roger McGough selects the winner. artsrichmond.org.uk/arts-richmon...
Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth 18 March @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social & online – free A talk by Prof @rhonabrown.bsky.social of @uofglasgow.bsky.social for @abdnriiss.bsky.social #18thcentury #literature #poetry www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...
Might be saloon doors 👍
And a house, even.
Maybe someone took some scissors to a tulip and a tablecloth. And a door and a car.
Can you do these homework questions set for my daughter?
Luke 6:39-45 is this week’s Catholic reading fae The New Testament in Scots bi W.L.Lorimer, read bi Tom Fleming: ➡️ www.scotslanguage.com/testament/6680 #Scots #ScotsLanguage
