We may take or leave Scotch plaid, Scotch whiskey, Scotch tape. But, love it or hate it, there's one wee bit of Scotland that can't be avoided. That's the annual orgy of sentiment that comes with a ...

Excessive cold calling? University of Glasgow researchers working to compile the first-ever Historical Thesaurus of Scots have already logged 421 different Scottish terms for snow. Launched today, the ...

LONDON (AP) – In a remote fishing town on the tip of Scotland’s Black Isle, the last native speaker of the Cromarty dialect has passed away, taking with him a little fragment of the English linguistic ...

In the late 19th century, a rare first-edition copy of the Robert Burns’ debut poetry collection, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was found in an English barber shop. It was missing its first ...

A yowe-tremmle—literally an “ewe-tremble”—is an old Scottish dialect word for a week of unusually cold or rainy weather beginning in the final few days in June that is literally cold enough to make ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Americans and Scots love a good party. Perhaps it’s in our DNA. Nearly 25 million Americans are of Scottish descent — that’s about 8 percent of this country’s population.

Inis Nua Theatre Company is Philadelphia based, but it specializes in plays from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. True to its focus, its current production, “Meet Me at Dawn,” is by award-winning ...