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Category. : Scottish words and phrases. This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.
The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) ( Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots – English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [1] The DOST contains ...
This is a list of English words borrowed from Scottish Gaelic. Some of these are common in Scottish English and Scots but less so in other varieties of English.
An archetypal example of an overt Scotticism is " Och aye the noo ", which translates as "Oh yes, just now". This phrase is often used in parody by non-Scots and although the phrases " Och aye " and " the noo " are in common use by Scots separately, they are rarely used together. [6] Other phrases of this sort include:
Scots [note 1] is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots ). [3] Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles, and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language ...
Glossary of names for the British. This glossary of names for the British include nicknames and terms, including affectionate ones, neutral ones, and derogatory ones to describe British people, Irish People and more specifically English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish people. Many of these terms may vary between offensive, derogatory ...
By the end of the twentieth century, Scots was at an advanced stage of language death over much of Lowland Scotland. [4] Residual features of Scots are often simply regarded today as slang, especially by people from outwith Scotland, but even by many Scots.
Scottish English ( Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English ( SSE ).