CMAT has always loved Scotland, but her most recent romp across the country proved that she has the ability to have the ...

Edinburgh Fog receives a brief mention in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (at the entry for haggis, where it appears in a 2003 citation ...

The fact that trial by jury can, after 800 years, be swept away by the votes of Scottish MPs is a powerful argument for English independence. I submit this as a paraphrase of a post on X by George ...

NIGEL Farage’s band of merry men and women are called Reform for a reason. It’s a fantastic name in times like these. You don’t need a dictionary to know that it means ‘change to improve’. It ...

EMMA Grae’s comment piece mentioned some of the problems about writing in Scots (We won’t save Scots and Gaelic if learners are slated ...

Umberto Bossi, who has died aged 84, was the rabble-rousing founder and leader of the Italian Northern League, or Lega Nord, ...

Poodle crossbreeds have grown overwhelmingly popular, sparking controversy in dog parks and kennel clubs alike.

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and ...

Last Sunday was the International Day to Combat Islamophobia and, just as he welcomed the start of Ramadan with a social ...

During a random dictionary delve last week I learned that "explore" once meant to cry out. It comes from an old Latin word ...

The letter X can be a lot of things: rebellious, mysterious, religious. For this Word of the Week, we examine its origins and many uses.

When you tell someone to ‘make hay while the sun shines’, what you are suggesting is that the individual should make good use the favourable circumstances that have come his way; he should get to work ...