“We’re delighted to be hosting such an exciting delegation of poets from the Scottish Isles to perform at StAnza’s online, hybrid festival.”
StAnza Poetry Festival 2021 ‘Bold’ and ‘Inventive’
The Sound of Liars
How do we work out if someone is lying to us? How do we work out if we can trust what they are telling us?
Word Learning & Talented Dogs
A new study found that talented dogs can learn new words after hearing them only four times.
Between Islands – Shetland Dialect
The Between Islands project which like other events has had to adapt and share online has another film by Keiba Clubb on the subject of Shetland dialect.
The Aberdeen Professor and The Russian Anthropologist Sergei Shirokogoroff
A University of Aberdeen academic has received a prestigious prize for his part in a huge 10-year study that sheds new light on a forgotten figure of Russian anthropology.
Letters: ‘Louty Keg’ ?
Here in Canada, when putting a container of milk behind the wood stove to warm before making butter, he referred to as the “louty keg”…I think.
New Linguistic Survey of Scots
“Scots continues to play an important role in our cultural and everyday lives and informs both our identity and sense of place.”
Volunteers Needed for Orcadian Dialect Research
To get involved email dialect@abertay.ac.uk
Shapinsay Speaks: Stories, Stones & Bones
Senior members of the community have been recording their recollections with a team of volunteer interviewers
