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Today’s arrival. Time for a reread. I last read this in 1998, as part of my first Open University course, about culture in Renaissance Europe 1450-1600. #Scotland #ScottishHistory #History #Plays #Theatre #16thCentury #SixteenthCentury #Culture #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsScrievin #Renaissance #Europe #OpenUniversity #OU

Roastit Yird by Albert Kirk Jr
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsScrievin #earthday2023 #poetry #earthday

Av been fannyin aboot wi an AI eemage makar an thocht A'd mock up a cover for ma nuvel, as weel as eemages o the main fowk in it.

They urnae exackly whit A thocht ma characters wad luik like, but they'r no dammt faur aff it 😄🧵

Cover an Valerie Duke, 10 year auld schuil lassie
#Scots #ScotsLeid #Scotland #ScotsScrievin #amwritingscifi #scifi

Warm the day, int it? 😄

Taps Aff by Albert Kirk Jr
#Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsPoetry #Poetry #ScotsScrievin #TapsAff #Scotland

Selkirk Grace 2.0
Albert Kirk Jr

Some hae scran an cannae tan
An some wad tan that want it;
But we hae scran an we can tan
Sae let the Lord be thankit!

#TartanDay #RobertBurns #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsPoetry #Poetry #ScotsScrievin #Scotland

Tartan Day by Albert Kirk Jr
#TartanDay #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsPoetry #poetry #ScotsScrievin #ukraine #Scotland

The third an last draft o ma nuvel is duin. Turns oot it's noo 138,000 wird, aw in #Scots. Thon’s aboot the lenth o A Tale o Twa Ceeties 😮

As A says afore, noo tae get the bugger furthset. A'm shair it'll be a skoosh 😅
#ScotsScrievin #ScotsWritin #ScotsWriter #ScotsLeid

#SlavaKonoval, #Kyiv, #Ukraine - #Lawyer an #Poyet.

Article by #CarlaWoodburn, #ScotsLanguageCentre #Poetry #Editor.

https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/6362/

#Scots #ScotsLeid #Poyem #Poem #Language #ScotsScrievin #Scrievin #ScotsWriting #WritingScots #Writing

PLAUNSH, v. To walk with soaking-wet shoes, to make a squelching noise with the feet. A gem of a Scots word I didn‘t know before. And aye, ah’ve plaunshed afore. https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/plaunsh #Scotland #Scots #ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #ScotsScrievin #Language

Checking some legal paperwork, and wryly amused at having - again - to correct the word deputy written wrongly instead of depute. The latter is still used in Scotland for someone in a deputy post. But the number of Scottish professionals we’ve had to correct re this … #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage #ScotsScrievin #Language #Scotland

Herge's Adventures Of #Tintin In The #Scots #Language

https://tintinscots.com/

#ScotsLanguage #ScotsLeid #Leid #Scrievin #ScotsScrievin

A wee poyum aboot yer da votin #Tory

Yer Da by Albert Kirk Jr
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Saicent fou draft o ma #Scots quair feenisht the nicht. Think A'll gie it a by till efter Yule an syne gie it a final dichtin.

An syne...the strauchle tae get it furthset sterts 🙂

A mean, it's guid tae gang the noo, but thare a wheen whigmaleeries A want tae squeesh in yet 😀
#ScotsLeid #ScotsScrievin

Don't often cross post from my blog, but I've got a guest poem by kind permission of @AlbertKirkJr . He shared it on here last week and I liked it so much I thought my blog readers would like it too.

Enjoy, and give him a follow if you haven't already.

https://albertsemple.com/blog/2022-11-07--AuldAgeDisnaeComeItsel

#scotspoetry #ScotsScrievin #ScotsWritin #poetry #Poem #Scots #ScotsLeid #ScotsLanguage