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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 ...
Scottish cuisine encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with Scotland. It has distinctive attributes and recipes of its own, but also shares much with other British and wider European cuisine as a result of local, regional, and continental influences—both ancient and modern. Scotland's natural larder of vegetables ...
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.
Slice (lower right) served with black pudding, baked beans, mushrooms and fried bread. The Lorne sausage, also known as square sausage, flat sausage or slice, is a traditional Scottish food item made from minced meat, rusk and spices. [1] Although termed a sausage, no casing is used to hold the meat in shape, hence it is usually served as ...
Caber toss. An athletic event, from the Gaelic word "cabar" which refers to a wooden pole. Cailleach. An old woman, a hag, or a particular ancient goddess. Cairn. [1] From càrn. The word's meaning is much broader in Gaelic, and is also used for certain types of rocky mountains. Caman. a shinty stick.
Glasgow dialect. The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
Scots language. Shetland dialect (also variously known as Shetlandic; [3] broad or auld Shetland or Shaetlan; [4] and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland. It is derived from the Scots dialects brought to Shetland from ...
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), [6] [7] also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal.