It's day therty-wan o #Scotstober 2025! A braw Halla e'en tae yees aw an weil duin tae aw thit's taen pairt! The day's wirds are: Tumshie Neep Baigie

It's day therty o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: glabber

Dod! – that’s him nou – eik up the byne; afore the hairth, his claen sark hing: pit claes is waffin on the line; merle on a rowan singin fine. —David Purdie, “Merle on a Rowan” #Scotstober #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/merle-r...

It's day twinty-nine o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: hing

It's day twinty-echt o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: ingle

It's day twinty-seiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: rammie

It's day twinty-sax o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: ȝammer

It's day twinty-five o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: brock

It's day twinty-fower o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: yeuk

It's day twinty-three o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: puggle

It's day twinty-twa o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: vance

It's day twinty-wan o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: zeast

It's day twinty o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: vrack

Du gies hooseroom tae a swap o scarfs, lodgins ta mallies. A shjalder swanks apo dy shooder… —Christine De Luca, “Growin Auld (Wasterwick)” published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES, @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social 1997 #Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_w...

AI and Wikipedia are sending the most vulnerable languages into a harmful linguistic doom loop. Wikipedia is used to train AI to speak vulnerable languages. But users are now flooding Wikipedia with shoddy AI translations. Latest in @technologyreview.com: www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...

It's day nineteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: shooder

“A man’s a man for a’ that” – how does he know? Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero, Swaggering down the lea-rigs, talking to mice… —“James Macfarlan”, by Edwin Morgan in VIRTUAL & OTHER REALITIES, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997 #Scotstober #poem #poetry www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754347...

Its day echteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: traipsie

Its day seiventeen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warp

“Shilpit, I am informed, sir, signifies stunted, undergrown. As to ‘wee’, that is, of course, current in English as well as in…” he paused for a second “…the Northern dialects. Nyaff, an insignificant person, a pip-squeak.” —from “McAuslan’s Court-Martial”, by George MacDonald Fraser #Scotstober 💙📚

Its day saxteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: nyaff

Its day fifteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warlock

Its day fowerteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: sleekit

We fecht to lowse oursels, we coup and skar and joater menseless in the foazie grun, feart to bide still, and fusionless to rin, we plouter on, forfeuchan, through the haar… —Robert Garioch, “The Bog” in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017) #Scotstober #poem #poetry asls.org.uk/publications...

Its day therteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: plooter

Its day twal o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: patch

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Its day eleiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: oxter

Its day ten o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: swick

Daith an’ dule will stab ye surely, Be ye man or wife, Mony trauchles an’ mischances In ilk weird are rife; Bide the storm ye canna hinder, Mindin’ through the strife, Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty Lichts the grey o’ life. —Helen Cruickshank, “Sea Buckthorn” #Scotstober asls.org.uk/publications...

Its day nine o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: trauchle

Its day echt o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: doo

And by the halie tree In the leaman licht o the wuid, Squired by a houlet, a hawk and a doo, Wes his Euridikee… —“Orpheus”, by Tom Scott (1918–1995) from A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS #Scotstober #poem #poetry asls.org.uk/publications...

…in ma dreams, ma dou, I’m staunin here upricht, wi’ you the lang sheld that I grue ahind. —Don Paterson, “The Human Sheld” published in RAIN (Faber, 2010) #Scotstober #poem #poetry www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Its day echt o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: doo

Its day seiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: kinnen

Noo Maunsie’s wis as guid a tongue As ever psalm o’ Dauvid sung. It fittit weel a godly mooth, And said few wirds ’at wirna truth, An’ never swöre by Guid or Deil Excep’ whan kyunnens ate his kail… —from “Auld Maunsie’s Crü”, by Shetland poet Basil Ramsay Anderson (1861–1888) #Scotstober #poem

Its day seiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: kinnen

Love is all you need: Remembering The Kingis Quair Alan Riach discusses The Kingis Quair – a poem attributed to King James I of Scots (1394–1437), & described by C.S. Lewis as “the first modern book of love” #Scotstober #medievalsky #poetry www.thenational.scot/news/1737200...

Its day sax o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: quair

Its day five o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: peedie

Its day five o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: peedie

Its day fower o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: dwang

Its day three o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: dewar

Its day twa o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: footer

“I’ll nae longer tolerate this climate of wholesale copulation, it’s costin me a fortune! And I’m tellin yow I’ll no huv ye footerin wi ma chauffeur…” —from “Mr Puntila & his Man Matti” (1999) by Peter Arnott, translated from Bertolt Brecht #Scotstober #drama asls.org.uk/publications...

“Like a taste in the mouth the memory of them, those countless long since Sunday tea-times, with Mrs Cuffee futtering about getting the table laid and ‘Children’s Hour’ on…” —Alan Sharp, A GREEN TREE IN GEDDE (1965) (A new edition of which is coming very soon …) #Scotstober

For want o luve we live on hate, For want o Heven praise the State, For want o richts we worship rules, For want o gods the glibbest fules… —Sydney Goodsir Smith, “Prolegomenon: The Deevil’s Waltz” in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS #Scots #poem #poetry #Scotstober #richts asls.org.uk/publications...

I was thinking earlier about my favourite Scots words, then found out that today is the first of #Scotstober. The word that led me down this path was: maukit (alt. mawkit); which means filthy, dirty, manky, mingin, hingin, boggin, and generally maggot-ridden.