{"id":3866,"date":"2017-08-12T15:14:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2017-08-12T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T15:14:24","slug":"scots-first-kist-o-riches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2017\/08\/12\/scots-first-kist-o-riches\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots First: Kist o Riches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3864 size-medium\" title=\"Alistair Heather\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alistercrop.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alistercrop.jpg 478w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/alistercrop-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Alistair Heather is the first to take up the latest \u201c<a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2016\/07\/03\/sharing-gaelic-voices\/\">Sharing Gaelic Voices<\/a>\u201d challenge, as Scots becomes the ninth addition to our \u201c<a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2017\/07\/11\/mother-tongues-and-other-tongues\/\">Mother Tongues and Other Tongues<\/a>\u201d collection of languages!<\/p>\n<p>It started with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126242628908\/permalink\/10155560911543909\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a recent post<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/126242628908\/\">Scots Language Forum<\/a> on Facebook to see what interest there might be in recording Scots voiceovers to Island Voices documentaries. Alistair was the first to respond, and chose to rescript (and update) the popular clip about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobarandualchais.co.uk\/\">Tobar an Dualchais<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, we\u2019ve also created a <a href=\"http:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/5904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clilstore unit (5904)<\/a> to accompany the video, so you can check any unknown Scots words in an online dictionary.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Scots documentary: Kist o Riches\" width=\"656\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lhC267fHNZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is our first video in Scots. It may not be our last. Many thanks to Alistair for starting the ball rolling. Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3865\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scotscrop.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scotscrop.jpg 718w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/scotscrop-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Alistair Heather is the Scots Editor at Bella Caledonia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Originally fae a wee village in Angus he\u2019s bade aa owre, fae Burgheid tae Leith, ayewis wi his lugs tuned in tae the Scots tongues aroon aboot him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He\u2019s in his final year o an MA in History at Aiberdeen Uni.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alistair Heather is the first to take up the latest \u201cSharing Gaelic Voices\u201d challenge, as Scots becomes the ninth addition to our \u201cMother Tongues and Other Tongues\u201d collection of languages! It started with a recent post to the Scots Language Forum on Facebook to see what interest there might be in recording Scots voiceovers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2017\/08\/12\/scots-first-kist-o-riches\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scots First: Kist o Riches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call","category-community","category-ugc","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}