Travelling across Scotland you will notice hundreds of towns, villages and parks with names that can be hard to pronounce for English speakers unfamiliar with the locations. Much of this difficulty ...

A Scottish actor has shared a roundup of Scottish place names that are "unfairly hard to pronounce". As most Scots know, there are cities, towns, and villages across the country that tourists have ...

A good Scottish accent brings images of bagpipes, kilts, and dramatically weathered cliffs to mind—but a bad one can make you look like a bogging bampot. The difference lies in the pronunciation, ...

Scottish spellings don’t always make a lot of sense. As every local will know, Scotland has its fair share of places many people struggle to pronounce. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of ...

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