Posts by Professor Robert McColl Millar

21 Nov 2018

Languages change, but please let us nae lose oor Scots

When I was a child, one of the most evocative words I heard my mother (and grandmother) use was ferfochan. It can be used to refer to a sense of world-weary exasperation for which there is rarely a remedy: A’m sair ferfochan wi ma brither. The word has rich connotations and…

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