GLASGOW—Delegates here at the COP26 climate summit could be excused for thinking it was taking place in an entirely English-speaking country. Step beyond the United Nations-controlled blue zone, and ...
This is one of those stories which seems like it might be a kind of “haha, how weird, the internet, am I right?!” type situation but which is actually pretty damned serious. It’s also only partially a ...
Kate Forbes, a Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) politician who speaks the language, has proposed a scheme that would potentially develop Gaelic-speaking housing estates to preserve the language.
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Jennifer Mattschey is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde and the Open University. When we talk about bilingualism, we often assume that people are equally fluent in both languages and use ...
No True Scotsman: More than a third of the Scots language Wikipedia appears to have been written by someone with absolutely no knowledge of the Scots language. This has gone exactly as well as you ...
The head of the Ulster-Scots Agency has said that the lack of requirement for the new commissioner to speak the language ...