Read on for a roundup of some of the Scots Halloween words you should know before October 31. A bana-bhuidseach is a witch or ...

Language is an important part of Scottish culture, and our colloquial phrases have been puzzling tourists for generations. Historically, Gaelic and Scots were widely spoken across the country, but ...

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Retired Canadian Army Maj. Bruce W MacDonald is aware that Gaelic words can be difficult to pronounce. But he has a solution. “Gaelic is not something you want to take on without being drunk,” he said ...

The research in this article was funded by the Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) and the University of Edinburgh. The feature documentary film was funded by Screen Scotland and BBC Alba, with ...

A decade after archaeologists first set out to find the long-lost Scottish monastery where the Book of Deer was written, they've had their biggest breakthrough yet. The Book of Deer is an illuminated ...

In the opening hour of Still Wakes the Deep, the acclaimed horror game set aboard a perilous oil rig in the North Sea, we hear the C-bomb no less than six times. Most come from the mouth of gruff ...