Dr Michael Dempster

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...

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?

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

Its day twal o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: patch

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#Scotstober
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Its day eleiven o #Scotstober 2025! The day's wird is: oxter