The fact that trial by jury can, after 800 years, be swept away by the votes of Scottish MPs is a powerful argument for English independence. I submit this as a paraphrase of a post on X by George ...

Our man Hugh Keevins doesn't miss with his latest hard-hitting column ahead of today's Old Firm Scottish Cup blockbuster ...

SKINNY jeans, mouth grills and the boyzillian wax are just three of 5000 new words in the latest edition of the Macquarie Dictionary. The Australian dictionary's fifth edition, which hits bookshops ...

WHOOPING-COUGH is, or used to be, called in the south of Scotland, “chincough,” but the “ch” was hard, so that it sounded kincough, or kink-cough. In Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary the word “To kink” ...

THE NEW LANGUAGE OF POLITICS (An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans and Political Usage) by William Safire. 528 pages. Random House. $10. This useful thesaurus confirms the suspicion that ...

Scotland's top words and phrases have been named, with a list rounding up more than 40 terms. On Thursday, July 24, Cottages & Castles published a "wee guide to Scottish slang". The experts rounded up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:jimmcdowall / Getty Images (jimmcdowall / Getty Images) A series of Scottish words have been added to the Oxford English ...

A total beamer - a football fan deals with Scotland's elimination from a tournament The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words - with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 ...