MAK FORRIT

Scrievin anent cultur, history, leids, politics, the airts and mair. (Tweets by Jamie)

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

🆕🔉Lug in tae version twa o wir Germanic leids soondbuird that maks compare atween #Scots, English, Norwegian, Swedish, German an nou Dutch: https://t.co/GixqYshQsi @ScotsScriever @Norw_Scot_Assoc @billykayscot @Historic_Ally @scotslanguage @ScotsLeidNews @ScotGovScots

[OneKind @onekindtweet]

🐖 OneKind supporter @jamieonkeys (who kindly helped us at our #StandUpForPigs demonstration!) has shared our campaign & highlighted the plight of pigs in his latest blog.

➡️ Read this brilliant blog on his Scots language website: https://t.co/s7CdfwLWWD

🙌 Thank you Jamie!

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

@MilliganDave Amazing! I've since managed to get myself a physical copy. A great book.

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

While daein resairch intae #Scots kintrae names I fund this anecdote in a 1928 Montrose Review anent the leid bein uised in the scuils as a language o instruction (in a Mr Whacker’s Jography cless). It seems tae hae been liftit frae /

[Jamie Smith 🎹🏳️‍🌈 @jamieonkeys]

🎉 I’ve been working away for the past twae-three year on a collection of tutorials for #jazz and #funk keyboard players, and the website is now live at https://t.co/UzFhvQq2ln. Check it oot! #piano

[Stuart Paterson @StuartPoet]

@makforrit Hope ye dinnae mind me sharin pal. A gey important & big book tae me. An Ah hope tae ithers an aw.

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

📝 New post wi some braw Christmas readin. I fund a wheen airticles aboot Christmas shoppin frae auld newspapers and hae set them furth. Fair enjoyed readin them! #Scots https://t.co/a5X4G7LAjf

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

It’s freezin! 🥶

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

@DrMDempster This micht be o interest tae yoursel 🙂

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

Speirin at the newfangelt #ChatGPT AI crack-bot and seein what #Scots it kens. It’s no meant for pittin ower muckle scrieves, but it daes no bad if ye gie it a wheen wirds!

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

It got in a fankle wi ‘quare’ for square. As the launch blog post says: ‘ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers.’ Mebbe it got it frae a variant o ‘quair’ or ‘queer’? https://t.co/AKEAAcjlAa

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

Bus stance, Embra. #Scots

[The Scots Scriever @ScotsScriever]

Wis in The Netherlands this wik and I canna help bit think o #Scots / Dutch links fan I’m ere. @makforrit has a braw resource for this ablow!
I’ll nivver forget ma primary drama teacher bawlin at ma: “Bricks are in the walls! Not trousers”👖😆
https://t.co/WLA2EcxNVf

[michael dempster - cyberscots ᛞᚩᛗ @DrMDempster]

If ye'r efter a wee cheer up - here some @StirUni students lairnin some Scots!

'mon in!

[Dr. Bendor Grosvenor 🇺🇦 @arthistorynews]

So, the Scottish Parliament could vote to enter the Union (in 1707, by 110 largely bought votes to 67), but cannot vote to leave it.

[Oor Vyce @OorVyce]

A puckle o oor activists hae been tellin @ScotNational aboot their priorities fir the upcomin Scottish Languages Bill - hae a read 👇

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

@StuartPoet Oh ay, I did. Scrieved aboot it on my blog tae.

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

Link tae 1928 Montrose Review: https://t.co/z5v6yvNJzv
And the 1899 Forfar Herald: https://t.co/IXHdyC1V9W

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

a participant in the experiences recorded, and are genuine specimens of local humour in a special aspect, and excellent illustrations of some peculiarities of district dialect.’

[MAK FORRIT @makforrit]

I’m on Mastodon: https://t.co/N26UkXdG24. Gie’s a follae!