WRITERS!

Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

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#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

WRITERS!

Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

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#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

There's a strong historical connection twixt Scotland and France, and we can see this in language.

In #Scots, "awa in a dwam" means to be lost in a daydream, with dwam meaning a daydream or stupor (the thing you are lost in).

In French, "dwam" is more usually substituted by "douane", as that's more often where things are lost. Example:

"Ou est mon colis?"
"Perdue à la douane"

https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/611/type

There's a strong historical connection twixt Scotland and France, and we can see this in language.

In #Scots, "awa in a dwam" means to be lost in a daydream, with dwam meaning a daydream or stupor (the thing you are lost in).

In French, "dwam" is more usually substituted by "douane", as that's more often where things are lost. Example:

"Ou est mon colis?"
"Perdue à la douane"

https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/611/type

Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish.

This server has been online since 2019.

https://mastodon.scot

You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet

#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scots #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

Mastodon.scot is a Mastodon server intended for (but not limited to) users in Scotland or who identify as Scottish.

This server has been online since 2019.

https://mastodon.scot

You can find out more at https://mastodon.scot/about or contact the admin @trumpet

#FeaturedServer #Scotland #Scottish #Scots #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Alba #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard

Tom Leonard reads “The Six O’Clock News”

🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

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

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard

Having discussed "fjärd", here's another landscape feature that's super common around Stockholm but apparently nowhere in the #English-speaking world: "häll". It's an almost horizontal, smooth, slightly convex expanse of gneiss or granite bedrock. It's what's left of a taller outcrop after the inland ice has ground it down. Maybe there's a #Scots word for it?

#language #geology

Having discussed "fjärd", here's another landscape feature that's super common around Stockholm but apparently nowhere in the #English-speaking world: "häll". It's an almost horizontal, smooth, slightly convex expanse of gneiss or granite bedrock. It's what's left of a taller outcrop after the inland ice has ground it down. Maybe there's a #Scots word for it?

#language #geology

I'm #translating#Scots fiction about sailing. This is made easier by a) Scots being full of Scandy words that I know, b) me knowing how to sail and what the Scandy sailing terminology is like.

I'm glad this isn't Welsh fiction about coal mining.

I'm #translating#Scots fiction about sailing. This is made easier by a) Scots being full of Scandy words that I know, b) me knowing how to sail and what the Scandy sailing terminology is like.

I'm glad this isn't Welsh fiction about coal mining.

I'm translating #Scots dialogue in R.L. Stevenson using https://dsl.ac.uk/, and when I look up rare words I find that they cite the story I'm translating.

#translation

I'm translating #Scots dialogue in R.L. Stevenson using https://dsl.ac.uk/, and when I look up rare words I find that they cite the story I'm translating.

#translation