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

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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/

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Have you registered for my next online Scots Song Robert Burns Song workshop? If not, today is the best day to sign up. Today is #BandcampFriday when they waive their artist fees. The perfect time to support artists!
I have two offerings on sale today. Tickets to my next online Scots Song workshop and Scots language Mothers Day cards. 🌸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Workshop info ↓
📍Zoom
🗓️ Wed 8 April
⏰ 20:00 GMT
💰 £10
🎟️ Tickets → https://bit.ly/3ZGADYp
👋 All abilities welcome

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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/

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Moonrise, an maudlin in the mirk,
we coorie in, hoose selt, hame hawked,
oor labour thirled tae yesterday,
the morra pawned fur brick-a-brack…

—Janet Paisley, “Aw Jock Tamson’s”
published in THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF SCOTTISH VERSE, @canongatebooks 2021

https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/

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