@illandancient

Streetlighting, spreadsheets, running, knitting, guitar, programming. probably moving to @illandancient@mastodon.scot

 Hertfordshire, UK
chrisgilmour.co.uk/scots/
Joined November 2007
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were playing silent hill townsfall tonight for halloween week + first play through!! <3 scottish me will react to all the scottish things, i hope theres scots (language) in this!!
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"Café" is a French word
OpenMinded_26
@openminded_26Oct 26
Does anyone…(apart from those desperate to compete with the Irish language) seriously believe that Ulster Scots is anything more than a lovely dialect ?
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Just a week left to submit your ideas for #UlsterScots Language Week 2026! Request an application form from [email protected] and submit your idea by 12 noon on Friday 30 October 2026. Further details can be found in the quoted post below 👇
Fair Faa Ye@fairfaayeOct 22
Just a week left to submit your ideas for #UlsterScots Language Week 2026! Request an application form from [email protected] and submit your idea by 12 noon on Friday 30 October 2026. Kindly supported by @UlsterScotsAgen #LeidWeek2026
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Tantallon Tìr@Tantallon_2001Oct 20
If you need an example of how good the Scots language can be in fiction try Seamus Connolly’s Gaels. 12 short stories and all but the first one (set in Ireland) are written in Scots. @conn7492 @JohnGerardFagan @mikey7fagan
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I think I got booted off Truth Social after a single day because I only wrotes posts in Scots.
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Fair Faa Ye@fairfaayeOct 12
Do you have a great idea for promoting the #UlsterScots language online? To mark #LeidWeek 2026, @dcsdcouncil is offering small grants of up to £300 to support the creation of digital content in Ulster-Scots. For an application form contact: [email protected]
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Imagine you were having a bad day at work, then suddenly 32 million people dunk on your business and they have to shut down. "oh no! someone was rude to a celebrity!"
Yashar Ali 🐘
@yasharOct 11
The Brooklyn store Kelly Clarkson criticized on here yesterday has responded with a statement.
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Our new MOOC: gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1296…

Exploring Tartan Noir: New online course examines Scotland’s crime-writing tradition 

A new online course, Exploring Tartan Noir, has been launched to examine Scotland’s crime-writing tradition and its cultural impact.

gla.ac.uk
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Ah'm gonnae save this.
Maksimologija@maksimologijaOct 7
Replying to @illandancient @BremenBod @NathanCJHood
That's garbage. Scottish poets have never "fended for themselves" as if they were bin-raking scavangers. You're English. You're not Scottish. You can't speak Scots. So take your patronising narratives and piss off.
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Could they not just outsource BBC Scotland to an broadcasting organisation in Scotland. Just decide how much they want to spend on it, and write a cheque.
The National
@ScotNationalOct 6
NEW: BBC Scotland is to become online only as the broadcaster pushes ahead with sweeping cuts aimed at saving £500 million 🚨 thenational.scot/news/266106…

BBC Scotland ‘to become online only’ in major cost-cutting shake-up

BBC Scotland is expected to become online only as the broadcaster pushes ahead with sweeping cuts aimed at saving £500 million, according to reports.

thenational.scot
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Any Scots speakers/writers out there interested in this fantastic job opportunity to administer Scots Language Week 2027? projects.handsupfortrad.scot…

Scots Language Week Administrative Producer

Hands Up for Trad are luikin for an Administrative Producer tae hae a key pairt in deliverin Scots Language Week 2027 Scots Language Week is a split-new national annual celebration o the Scots leid…

projects.handsupfortrad.scot
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NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics - Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him.
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Roy Møller@roypetermollerSep 23
Thanks to Marc Riley at BBC 6Music for playing my tune Byres Road Saturday. @WallyTBM. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030ct…
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We're reelin aff a mighty edition o the Scots Leid Awards! 🗳️ Record votes 🏆 13 worthy winners 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A braw day aw the gither Thanks tae aybody wha voted, aw the nominees an oor incredible sponsors. Here’s tae keepin Scots hale, herty and thriving! – projects.handsupfortrad.scot…
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Gianl1974
@Gianl1974Sep 14
🇬🇧 UK officials are furious after The Trump Administration secretly flew a US diplomat out of England, after authorities found child abuse materials in a raid on his London apartment. By the time British’s authorities searched his drives and found the content, the US had smuggled him out of England and back to the US, via a US Air Force base.
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Paul Frijters@FrijtersPaulSep 8
Replying to @thebandb
Engeland lijkt de zwakkere kinderen uit de data te hebben gelaten. Zie 1.4% EHC versus 5% in eigenlijke scholen. Die 410 ongematchte studenten zijn ook verdacht. Prof John Jerim denkt dat Engeland eigenlijk zeker 10 punten lager is.
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Interesting view this. Did Middle English develop into Scots or was Scots developing in parallel to Middle English? Did the Northumbrian dialect of Old English just fizzle out? Or has the language in question always been distinct from the language in England.
Michael Palmer@medic_southsideSep 14
Replying to @Crimb1eCrumb1e @ClwydEnComu
If you are talking about Gaelic, then that's just nonsense. Middle English was the predominant language in lowland Scotland by the 1300s and that developed into Scots over the next few centuries. At the time of the Union, Gaelic was often referred to as "Irish".
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Also the bit about Gaelic "often" referred to as Irish, is not entirely untrue, but in the 1791 Statistical Account of Scotland, out of 72 parishes that described the Gaelic language, not one used the erm "Irish", although three used the word "Erse" Is that enough to be "often"?
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Mark Stirton@MarkstirtonSep 14
As I reach the end of the One Day Removals Special Edition Edit, I'm loving that the climax of this comedy features two cunts fighting about braining another cunt to death with a hammer next to five dead bodies. I love Aberdonians, another city might have been offended.
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49 nominees. 10 categories. An affa lot o talent! 🙌 Check oot this year's Scots Language Award nominees and hae yer say oan the winners – projects.handsupfortrad.scot…
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