An aunt of mine remarked to me:
‘Ah’m no froom
Bit whan Ah see them
Ee’in the trayfi meat
It scunners me.’
I found this very striking.
—AC Jacobs, “Dear Mr Leonard”
5/6
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Jewish #diaspora #Scots #Scotslanguage #Yiddish #Glasgow
“When Jennie first meets the 𝑡𝑜𝑑-𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑙, she cries enquiringly 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑖𝑐𝑘? This Scots equivalent of English 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑐𝑘 has been used to represent duck noises since the 17th century”
—Susan Rennie on translating Beatrix Potter’s 𝐽𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑚𝑎 𝑃𝑢𝑑𝑑𝑙𝑒-𝐷𝑢𝑐𝑘 into Scots
https://scrennie.com/2026/05/16/tods-plaidies-and-fairy-thimmles/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #translation #BeatrixPotter #childrensliterature #kidlit
Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Rhiannon Purdie, Professor of English & Older Scots at the University of St Andrews; Steve Boardman, Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh; & Michael Brown, Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews – discuss John Barbour’s epic poem THE BRUS. Written c.1375, it is the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8
#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #Scots #Scotslanguage
See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…
—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…
—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of Scotland
Today, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
#dotScot race across the world continues with #Scots #Australia 🏴🇦🇺🌏🤝
https://dot.scot/blog/2026/professor-stewart-gill-on-scot-and-the-scots-in-australia/
I have lived in Australia since the mid 1980s and had long involvement with the Scottish community through running Scottish studies and history programs in Melbourne including a course in Scottish History at the University of Melbourne. I also served…Continue reading →
Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.
—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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