Whenever you visit a new country, it's a good idea to brush up on the cultural norms and basic etiquette rules. Knowing how to behave properly can make it significantly easier to meet people while ...

According to the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL), this Scots term for cattle is a borrowing from early Scandinavian and has been ...

Gum stumps are usually hollow, and so this saying implies doing something futile that wastes time and effort. This article ...

These boy and girl names are definitely unique.

This term is defined in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) as, “a payment in kind, especially of poultry, made by a tenant of land ...

A spat over the America250 celebrations in Belfast has arisen in City Hall, after the DUP labelled Sinn Féin “petty” for raising questions about £50,000 going to the Ulster Scots Agency from a council ...

The Scottish Government has launched the latest phase of its road safety campaign, ‘Speeding is a Dangerous Game,’ using video game language to reach young drivers. Created by ad agency Leith, the ...

While I very much doubt that you’ll see this, here is my response to your campaign letter. I am 74 years old and an absolute believer in universal human rights and pursuit of equal opportunities for ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Lee Reynolds, Northern Ireland’s new Ulster Scots commissioner, is a thoughtful and intelligent man. Yet even he is wrestling with the fundamental contradiction of his office: the Ulster Scots ...

A groundbreaking new monolingual Irish dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge, the body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland, was launched this week by ...