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Teuchter. Teuchter ( Scots pronunciation: [tʲuːxtər] [1] [2]) is a Lowland Scots word sometimes used to offensively describe a Scottish Highlander, in particular a Gaelic -speaking Highlander. [3] It is offensive, equivalent to other cultural epithets used by more powerful groups to describe people they have oppressed, but is often seen as ...
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]
Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland by the Scottish government, [8] a regional or minority language of Europe, [9] and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. [10] [11] In a Scottish census from 2022, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots.
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 the end of the ...
Words of Scottish Gaelic origin. Cairn. Capercaillie. Claymore. Trousers. Bard. [1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel". The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek ( bardos) and ancient ...
The history of Scottish Gaelic dictionaries goes back to the early 17th century. The high-point of Gaelic dictionary production was in the first half of the 19th century, as yet unrivalled even by modern developments in the late 20th and early 21st century. The majority of dictionaries published to date have been Gaelic to English dictionaries.
sco-u-sd-gbglg, en-scotland-u-sd-gbglg. 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]
Ulster Scots – spoken primarily by the descendants of Scottish settlers in Ulster, particularly counties Antrim, Down and Donegal. Also known as "Ullans". The southern extent of Scots may be identified by the range of a number of pronunciation features which set Scots apart from neighbouring English dialects.