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Stefanie Neumann 4h ago

Hit war lik poeple bade in a Dewar globe, wairdit inower a echa chaumer o thair in arrs.

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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)

#Scotstober 2025-03rd - Dewar
#WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
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HighlandLawyer 7h ago

Whit d'ye cry a crabbit monk wi a relic?

A dour dewar.

#Scotstober #dewar #ScotsLanguage

Assoc for Scottish Literature 1d ago

“I’ll nae longer tolerate this climate of wholesale copulation, it’s costin me a fortune! And I’m tellin yow I’ll no huv ye footerin wi ma chauffeur, cos the place is gone tae hell and there’s a leemit tae ma forebearance!”

—from “Mr Puntila & his Man Matti” (1999) by Peter Arnott, translated from Bertolt Brecht
Published in SERVING TWA MAISTERS: Five Classic Plays in Scots Translation

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/serving_twa_maisters/

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #drama #theatre #translation

HighlandLawyer 1d ago

Cauld autumn rain dreeps
Atween yer collar an neck:
Ach, sic a fouter.

#Scotstober #footer #haiku #Scotslanguage

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Stefanie Neumann 1d ago

Ower mony fittert aboot, luikin fer somethin, tae haud ontae. Anely, thay coudnae find onythin while reakin oot.

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(Ah'm nae native spikker.)

#Scotstober 2025-02nt #footer
#WriteInScots #Scots #Doric
#WritingCommunity

@DrMDempster
@writingcommunity

Assoc for Scottish Literature 2d ago

For want o luve we live on hate,
For want o Heven praise the State,
For want o richts we worship rules,
For want o gods the glibbest fules…

—Sydney Goodsir Smith, “Prolegomenon: The Deevil’s Waltz”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS: an anthology of Scots poetry
from the first & second waves
of the Scottish Renaissance (ASL, 2017)

Happy #Scotstober!

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #Scotstober #richts

HighlandLawyer 2d ago

If you have any interest in the Scots language, maybe have a go at Scotstober posting something using the word of the day from the list throughout October. Doesn't matter if you're fluent or a learner, or even if you take it as an opportunity to start learning. Any words you don't know can be looked up in https://dsl.ac.uk/
#Scotstober #ScotsLanguage #Languages