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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:jimmcdowall / Getty Images (jimmcdowall / Getty Images) A series of Scottish words have been added to the Oxford English ...

No-one wants to hear the sound of a splorroch but a huam is another matter, at least if you had lived in Scotland 100 years ago or more. Long forgotten words to describe the countryside have been ...

Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...

While the UK is only home to around 69 million people, there are dozens of regional languages and dialects spoken across the British Isles. From Cornish to Scottish Gaelic, Manx, and Welsh, each ...

Scots have coined some funny, well-known phrases that have echoed across the world. From 'taps aff', to remove your top during hot weather, to 'pure dead brilliant,' meaning very good, we are known ...

A series of Scottish words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. More than 10 new Scottish entries have been recorded in the newest version of the dictionary. On ...