The Economist

Is Scots a language, or merely a dialect?

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...
CNN

Last native speaker of Scots dialect dies

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...
The Conversation

Doric: the Scots dialect spoken by the Queen – what it sounds like and where it comes from

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eturbonews

Unique dialect lost in Scotland after last native speaker dies

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died — and so has the dialect he spoke. Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a ...
The Atlantic

What’s a Language, Anyway?

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...