Mastodawn

Chan eil mi a’ creidsinn gur e seo duilgheadas ann an da-rìribh. Bidh sinn a’ ceartachadh agus uaireannan a’ gàireachdainn le ar clann mu mhearachdan, chan ann mu na mearachdan sin. Tha daoine ann a bhios a’ magadh air daoine airson nach eil an ‘cànan ceart’ aca ach tha iad tearc. Tha fàilte air a h-uile duine as aithne dhomh air daoine a dh’fheuchas ri an cànan a

Bidh sinn a’ magadh air an fheadhainn a bhios a’ gàireachdainn.

https://www.thenational.scot/comment/25945550.wont-save-scots-gaelic-learners-slated-mistakes/

#Gaeilge #gàidhlig #Scots #Language

Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 11

RSE Investigates: The history of Scots and English in 10 objects

What can objects tell us about the history of our languages?
Prof Jeremy Smith uncovers the unique stories & histories of English & Scots through ten extraordinary objects: a bone, a piece of jewellery, a stone cross, a jug, two manuscripts, two letters, a broadside sheet, & an early printed book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8MEEn47TRc

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #languagehistory

The history of Scots and English in 10 objects | RSE Investigates

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Wen Mar 11

Dae ye think thare is room for ane more wee ane i the club? A have the doins. Fek the critics

https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/len-pennie-perfoming-worst-poets-club-plagarism-row-cql35xh2h

#Scots #Poetry #Pennie

jdmccafferty Mar 9

9 Mar 1578: d. Lady Margaret Douglas Countess of Lennox #otd after having become violently ill after supper with Robert Dudley Earl of #Leicester. She was grand-daughter of Henry VII and aunt to Mary Queen of #Scots, great-aunt to James VI & I

jdmccafferty Mar 8

8 Mar 1661: Samuel Rutherford #Scots presbyterian theologian makes his will #otd He died on 29 Mar 1661 (University of St Andrews)

Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 8

I didna speak
whan it bleetert doon.
Ma man wis gey taen up wi’ getting us
sortit, an’ it wis fell lang afore we had
the bastes in an’ the fowl settled…

—Eunice Buchanan, “Wife to Noah”
published in MARKINGS 30 (2010)

A poem for International Women’s Day

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/wife-noah/

#Scottish #literature #InternationalWomensDay #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 8

“Bide the storm ye canna hinder”

Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975): poet, author, founder member of the Saltire Society, Hon Sec of Scottish PEN, & linchpin of the 20th-century Scottish renaissance

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/helen-cruickshank-bide-the-storm-ye-canna-hinder/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #InternationalWomensDay #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage

Helen Cruickshank: ‘Bide the storm ye canna hinder’ - The Bottle Imp

Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886-1975), a significant poet who also supported and nurtured many of Scotland's most noted writers.

The Bottle Imp

jdmccafferty Mar 7

7 Mar 1566: The Parliament of #Scotland meets #otd in the presence of Mary Queen of #Scots who was then 6 months pregnant with the future James VI

Assoc for Scottish Literature Mar 6

There’s no a muir in my ain land but’s fu’ o’ sang the day,
Wi’ the whaup, and the gowden plover, and the lintie upon the brae.
The birk in the glen is springin’, the rowan-tree in the shaw,
And every burn is rinnin’ wild wi’ the meltin’ o’ the snaw…

—Lady John Scott, “The Comin’ o’ the Spring”

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/comin-o-spring/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #Spring