This glorious beast Louis helped me with some Scots Language lessons today 🐶🐕 We’ve been using Slavering since about 1325, which is amazing Slaistering seems a bit more recent, used for a few hundred years, and can be to eat messily, to drip food or liquids out yer mouth, or be slopping about in liquid or mud This was a controversial reel in the stories cause of Louie’s massive slobbers, but I really like the big man! What do you call slesters where you are? | Alistair Heather

Scots language poet and writer, Len Pennie, performs ‘The Vow’ taken from her new collection Poyums Annaw for a special episode of The Adverb at Hay Festival available this evening on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm. The Adverb | Listen on BBC Sounds #HayFestival #HayFestival2025 | BBC Radio 4

Here are some favourite Scottish words from the Scots Language Awards this month! We had a braw time at the Hands Up for Trad ceremony at Discovery Point and RRS Discovery where we enjoyed a blether about all things Scots. • Dundee and Angus Scots Scriever Taylor Dyson • Scots Writer of the Year Yvonne Tait • Slam poet Hamish MacDonald • Scottish Book Trust team member Lindsay Johnstone • Young Scots Writer of the Year Morven Templeton • Historian Terry McBride Thanks for sharing your favourite