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Scots clesses in Stirlin
Sponsor-a-Word
Debut for the Scots Language at the United Nations, New York
Scots Audit and Needs Analysis
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The Scots Language Centre wad like tae lat awbody ken that Stirlin Cooncil is ettlin tae pit on clesses in Scots. The clesses will form a pairt o the Adult Lair programme anent leids an will be held ilka Tuesday nicht, 7-9pm, stertin Tuesday 25 September 2007. Clesses will be in the chaumers o the Cowane Centre, Stirlin an the tutor will be Steven Allan. The screed o clesses will run for ten weeks awthegither. The ordnar price is tae be £40 but senior ceetizens an less-sillert fowk will can get clesses for hauf price or even for free, gauin bi the state o leeving.
Tae ken mair, or inrow, speir bi email: Adult Lair, or phone 01786 432 360.
If you are having difficulty thinking of birthday presents, anniversary presents, thank you presents or even Christmas presents, why not give the person who has everything a Scots word. You can nominate a person as sponsor of a Scots word in the New Edition of the Concise Scots Dictionary, or you can sponsor a word yourself. For £20 the recipient will be sent a certificate of sponsorship, an information pack about your word and a year's membership of Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD), entitling them to SLD's newsletters and special members' prices on their dictionaries. You can delight and surprise someone and support work of national importance at the same time. Visit SLD's website for details, or alternatively email Chris Robinson or call on 0131 650 4149.
The Scots Language has been heard on-stage for the first time at the prestigious world poetry event, The Stones of Civilisation, held at the United Nations in New York.
Matthew Fitt, co-founder of Itchy Coo, read a poem in Scots to 250 delegates in the U.N. Building's Dag Hammarskold auditorium. Reading Acid Burns by Mike Cullen from Itchy Coo's Scots anthology The Smoky Smirr o Rain, Fitt encouraged poets from Australia, Wales, the Basque Country, Ireland, Africa and North America to join in a chorus of Hoose, hoose, hoose, hoose.
Prior to the Stones of Civilisation reading, the United Nations has only recognised Scottish Gaelic.
An Audit and Needs Analysis has recently been carried out for Irish and Ulster Scots. Gavin MacDougall of Luath Press Ltd is looking for information on anything similar that has been done for Scots. If anyone has any information please contact:
Gavin MacDougall
Director
Luath Press Ltd
543/2 Castlehill
The Royal Mile
Edinburgh
EH1 2ND
Telephone +44 (0)131 225 4326 |