🚨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

🚨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

Jist me?

Talks some amoont o mince

Hou it stertit vs hou it's gaun

Hou it stertit vs hou it's gaun

The Scottish Languages Bill haes been passed unanimously! The first time Scots haes been recognised in Scots law! Weil duin tae awbody involved 🤝👏👏👏👏

The Scottish Languages Bill haes been passed unanimously! The first time Scots haes been recognised in Scots law! Weil duin tae awbody involved 🤝👏👏👏👏

Fowk dinnae realise, but it'd tak ye an entire month athoot sleep tae shake the haun o every person thit reportit they've Scots language in Scotland's Census if ye haed them aw in a queue

My thoughts on the development of Scots language AI in today’s @scotnational.bsky.social: www.thenational.scot/comment/2510...

Ay, McGonagall & the McFusty Clan... At least she cawed her ain sel Jakie

Hairt sair, doon, dowie Dreich, dour Soort fae cowpt howp Efter cowpt howp Ken thon wey? There a want wi me - Reivit roch an rearin, Teirin thro glaur an glabber O ma ain muck midden Ugsome guddle But that's not the proper language for therapy. "I'm a bit sad." I said ÆL

Geographical distribution o Scots wirds an linguistic features thro the medium o cheese Some features hae clear local variation - lik 5 coonties Some features are general, but hae gaps in contemporary uisage- lik Swiss cheese But maist are universal - lik Scottish cheddar 😋

I wonder how they sought informed consent 🤔

Haud the bus, Scotland - we've been pronooncin lochs wrang, accordin tae *checks notes* The National Geographic. kids.nationalgeographic.com/geography/co... Irony's deid.

The electricity consumption of data centres is projected to more than double by 2030 The primary culprit? Artificial Intelligence https://go.nature.com/42oEERZ

Any (legitimate) criticism of Blue Origin aside, it's good to see an all woman crew launched on a rocket! As a wean I was so buzzed following Helen Sharman's mission Idiots told me I shouldn't have been, because it was a woman In space SciComs- encourage girls! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_S...

How many ex-X folk are here fae Scottish Twitter?

For mair #Scots content on BlueSky follae: @scotslanguage.bsky.social @lairnscots.bsky.social @asls.org.uk An pit mair in yer replies tae this!

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!

Cauld "It's gey cauld" They said But they ken Thit ye'll no Get a haun Tae ye Tell them "It's cold." ÆL

Bairns Coontin Gemm It sterts wi Wan Twa Three Fower Five Six Seiven Eicht Nine Ten Keep gaun Alivin Twal Thirteen Keep gaun Fir five hale oors An mair Tae ye reach The nummer Ae weans Killt These months In Gaza ÆL

"Mad that Musk jist bought an personally privately ains the public coms an DMs o jist aboot aw governments, politicians, journalists, public institutions an public (an private) figures thit wis on Twitter, an thit we're aw stull here tbh"

Papped a haunfae o posts fae "the Ither Place" on here. A'll mibbie dae mair efter

D.I.Y. - Dae It Yersel

That sad thit a significant proportion ae thaim thit's interestit in the social science ae Scotland completely dingie the linguistic situation. Efter the wey a person luiks is taen in the wey thit they soond is the maist important social mairker. Haud on tae yer language!

A braw airticle fae Alasdair Allan

Geographical distribution o Scots wirds an linguistic features thro the medium o cheese Some features hae clear local variation - lik 5 coonties Some features are general, but hae gaps in contemporary uisage- lik Swiss cheese But maist are universal - lik Scottish cheddar 😋

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!

Cauld "It's gey cauld" They said But they ken Thit ye'll no Get a haun Tae ye Tell them "It's cold." ÆL

For mair #Scots content on BlueSky follae: @scotslanguage.bsky.social @lairnscots.bsky.social @asls.org.uk An pit mair in yer replies tae this!

There some fowk on X yit. Aw four replies wis folk sayin they ainly dip their heid in cause they've no monie fowk on here

Bein able tae fully engage wi civic society shuidnae be contingent oan ye chyngin yer language. That's hou A speik ma ain Scots at the Scottish pairliament an in the media Maist fowk in Scotland unnerstaun me whan A dae, an maist unnerstaun ither Scots speikers Gie it a shot. Uise yer ain Scots!

How many ex-X folk are here fae Scottish Twitter?

Thoughts?

Did ye ken the singin o Scots ballads on Glesga streets an back coorts lead tae the "Glasgow Police Act, 1800" thit's the foondin document o the modren polis forces warld wide? Sing awa!

Oniebody Emb'dy Anybody Anyone Anywan Oniewan Nae.. Aw... Every... Some... Su... ...whaur ...whaar ...wherr ...where ...thing ...thin ...hin ...fin ...in (...c*nt 😱) Whit a variety o indefinite pronoons we hae in #Scots Whit wans dae you uise?

A quick editorial guide tae the #Scots second person personal pronoon. Maist uisual uisage = ye "Aw, ye did that, did ye?" Emphatic = you "Aw, it wis you thit did that. Whit did ye dae that for?" Accusatory or exclamatory = ya "Ye did it, ya star. Aw, ya dancer!" [Du/thou is different]

Did ye ken the singin o Scots ballads on Glesga streets an back coorts lead tae the "Glasgow Police Act, 1800" thit's the foondin document o the modren polis forces warld wide? Sing awa!

A quick editorial guide tae the #Scots second person personal pronoon. Maist uisual uisage = ye "Aw, ye did that, did ye?" Emphatic = you "Aw, it wis you thit did that. Whit did ye dae that for?" Accusatory or exclamatory = ya "Ye did it, ya star. Aw, ya dancer!" [Du/thou is different]

On 8th March 1936 Oor Wullie made his first appearance in the Sunday Post newspaper. #comics #Scotland

🎶 Who’s the cause o aw the mirth? Rob Roy MacGregor-O Fae Glasgow Cross to the Solway Firth Rob Roy MacGregor-O Eat the breid and heid the baw The man that ate the boiled ham raw He very seldom kicks his maw Rob Roy MacGregor-O 🎶

Oniebody Emb'dy Anybody Anyone Anywan Oniewan Nae.. Aw... Every... Some... Su... ...whaur ...whaar ...wherr ...where ...thing ...thin ...hin ...fin ...in (...c*nt 😱) Whit a variety o indefinite pronoons we hae in #Scots Whit wans dae you uise?

@techconnectify.bsky.social hey, good to see you're on here. I filmed this for you after recalling your video on flickering candle bulbs and your explaining this phenomenon. I thought you'd like to see the effect 'in the wild' (We didn't install those switches 😬📏📐)

Hae a swatch at this airticle tae lairn mair aboot oor Wird o the Week, frae oor freens at the Dictionars o the Scots Leid: https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/6672 #Scots #ScotsLanguage

NEW: TV bosses put pressure on directors working on Scottish programmes to watch the “language” of actors so English audiences can understand, an award-winning filmmaker has said. www.thenational.scot/news/2488079...

Lug-in tae Tom Fleming giein this week’s Catholic reading fae The New Testament in Scots bi W.L.Lorimer: https://www.scotslanguage.com/testament/6673 Luke 2:22-40 #Scots #ScotsLanguage