A birthday 🧵 for Violet Jacob (1863–1946) – poet, novelist, short story writer, & key figure in the 20th-century Scottish renaissance & #Scots language revival – born #OTD, 1 September
The #Scots cat-sìth or #Irish cat sí is a #fairy creature from #Celtic #mythology, said to resemble a black cat with a white spot on its chest. It is described as being as large as a dog and chooses to display itself with its back arched and bristles erect. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish Highlands. The legends surrounding this creature are more common in #Scottish #folklore, but a few occur in Irish. Some common folklore suggested that the cat-sìth was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times.
Source: Cat-sìth - Wikipedia
I for one would love to set it as my display #languages in #GNOME but it is not among the choices.
Aboot that, #Firefox has #Scots available fur ye tae wale, and is the most awesome leid in the settins ye can stert yaisin richt noo! 👌 Ah dinnae find #Shetlandic though.
#Writers – send your work to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 42!
We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. Submission is free & all successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 October!
When a was peerie a loved learning Shetland dialect - what a didn’t know was just how many accents exist in this island group of ~23,000 folk!
If you’re interested in #shetland dialect check out the link to hear the various accents & sound files! It’s really interesting & I find it really comforting and soothing to listen to. #scotland#scots#uk
I ken ver no playin Tetris uncle Erchie. What are ye daein? Yer no even lookin at that screen.
Yiv goat ver visual reality specs oan huvn't ye?
Yer no workin fur Israeli intelligence again are ye, guyin bomb drones intae mithers, bairns, hospitals an doctors? Again!? Yer a sair coorse meschant o a sot - so ye are! #language#drawing#cartoon
5 June 1646: At the battle of Benburb Co. Tyrone #otd Owen Roe O'Neill inflicts losses of 3,000 on the Covenanters forcing the #Scots general Robert Munro back into #Antrim
9 June 1537: d. Louis Duc de Longueville #otd leaving Mary of Guise a widow. She married James V of #Scots by proxy in May 1538. (NGS/Sodacan) Their offspring was Mary Queen of Scots who succeeded her father when only six days old.
31 May 1596: d. John Leslie, Bishop of Ross near #Brussels#otd Also an important historian. Here is his History of Scots (1578), in an Irish Franciscan copy. (JMcC)
Ardent supporter & friend of Mary Queen of #Scots.
Alexander Scott landed in Normandy with the Gordon Highlanders, & saw action in the Ardennes & crossing the Rhine. He later became Head of #Scottish#Literature at the University of Glasgow, & was president of ASL from 1976–79
Published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945, ed. David Goldie & Roderick Watson