Scots language body awarded £18,500 by Holyrood

A FUNDING boost will help more Scots use the country’s “incredibly rich” language, a Scottish Government minister has said.

A total of £18,500 has been awarded to Scotland Language Dictionaries (SLD), which set up and maintains an online dictionary of Scots language.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, SLD has also teamed up with a publisher to produce a new book about the language.

Modern Scots Grammar: Wirkin wi Wirds is being published by Luath with the help of £10,000 from the Government.

Alasdair Allan, minister for Scotland’s languages, said both the book and the online dictionary would help Scots discover more about traditional words.

He said: “Scots is all around us, in our communities, in our songs, theatre, literature and poetry.

“The Scottish Language Dictionaries plays a vital role in helping people expand their knowledge of the language.

“Both the online dictionary and Wirkin wi Wirds will help more and more people move beyond popular words like glaikit, blether, braw and dreich - the most popular words in a survey last month - to draw on more of our incredibly rich language.”

A YouGov poll last month found the most popular Scots words were dreich, glaikit, blether, crabbit, sleekit, beastie and braw.