In the aftermath of her passing, it was reported that Queen Elizabeth could speak the local dialect of Balmoral and the region around it. This dialect of the north-east of Scotland – called the Doric ...

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...

The Scottish accent can be notoriously hard for other English speakers to understand, but what if that’s because it’s not actually English at all? Though closely related to English, Scots is ...

What’s the difference between a language and a dialect? Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Faced with the ...