AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...

Anthony Faiola’s article from Sunday’s Washington Post is a marvelous primer on Scotland’s convulsions of political independence. It masterfully traces the history, economic considerations and ...

In a world that is increasingly homogenous, we need to do all we can to nurture the cultural markers that make human beings ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

In the aftermath of her passing, it was reported that Queen Elizabeth could speak the local dialect of Balmoral and the region around it. This dialect of the north-east of Scotland – called the Doric ...

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died — and so has the dialect he spoke. Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a ...

An American has written and edited thousands of articles on the official Wikipedia site for the centuries-old Scots language. The Wikipedia user AmaryllisGardener, an administrator for the site, has ...

An Irish language commissioner, an Ulster Scots commissioner and an Office of Identity and Cultural Expression have just been ...

The announcement comes more than two months after BBC News NI revealed Pól Deeds and Lee Reynolds had been offered the posts.

In the tiny fishing village of Cromarty, on the tip of Scotland's Black Isle, the last speaker of the local dialect has died. Host Rachel Martin... Scottish Dialect's Last Speaker Dies RACHEL MARTIN, ...

The internet was ablaze earlier this week after it was discovered that the bulk of the Wikipedia pages for Scotland were written by an American teenager who doesn't even know the Scots language. A ...