A guess thit ye kin mak apps in Scots oan Apple noo an hae them classified as Scots, raither'n English
Scots noo available on Apple as a preferred language 👍
(Still gies English fir aw, but it's the grunwirk tae mak the fun wirk 😉)
Ahem... who called it?
10/12/2024 😉
It's day therty-wan o #Scotstober 2025!
A braw Halla e'en tae yees aw an weil duin tae aw thit's taen pairt!
The day's wirds are:
Tumshie
Neep
Baigie
It's day therty o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: glabber
Thanks Emma 😊
Dod! – that’s him nou – eik up the byne;
afore the hairth, his claen sark hing:
pit claes is waffin on the line;
merle on a rowan singin fine.
—David Purdie, “Merle on a Rowan”
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/merle-r...
It's day twinty-nine o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: hing
It's day twinty-echt o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: ingle
It's day twinty-seiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: rammie
It's day twinty-sax o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: ȝammer
It's day twinty-five o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: brock
It's day twinty-fower o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: yeuk
It's day twinty-three o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: puggle
It's day twinty-twa o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: vance
It's day twinty-wan o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: zeast
It's day twinty o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: vrack
Du gies hooseroom tae a swap o scarfs,
lodgins ta mallies. A shjalder swanks
apo dy shooder…
—Christine De Luca, “Growin Auld (Wasterwick)”
published in WAST WI DA VALKYRIES, @shetlandlibrary.bsky.social 1997
#Scotstober #poem #poetry #Shetland
www.christinedeluca.co.uk/pages/wast_w...
AI and Wikipedia are sending the most vulnerable languages into a harmful linguistic doom loop.
Wikipedia is used to train AI to speak vulnerable languages. But users are now flooding Wikipedia with shoddy AI translations.
Latest in @technologyreview.com: www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
It's day nineteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: shooder
“A man’s a man for a’ that” – how does he know?
Traipsing with his plough, the rural hero,
Swaggering down the lea-rigs, talking to mice…
—“James Macfarlan”, by Edwin Morgan
in VIRTUAL & OTHER REALITIES, @carcanet.bsky.social 1997
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
www.carcanet.co.uk/978185754347...
Its day echteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: traipsie
Its day seiventeen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warp
“Shilpit, I am informed, sir, signifies stunted, undergrown. As to ‘wee’, that is, of course, current in English as well as in…” he paused for a second “…the Northern dialects. Nyaff, an insignificant person, a pip-squeak.”
—from “McAuslan’s Court-Martial”, by George MacDonald Fraser
#Scotstober
💙📚
Its day saxteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: nyaff
Its day fifteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: warlock
Its day fowerteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: sleekit
We fecht to lowse oursels, we coup and skar
and joater menseless in the foazie grun,
feart to bide still, and fusionless to rin,
we plouter on, forfeuchan, through the haar…
—Robert Garioch, “The Bog”
in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2017)
#Scotstober #poem #poetry
asls.org.uk/publications...
Its day therteen o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: plooter
