4 Sentences With "smeddum"

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But with a little smeddum, or spirit, Scots could be saved – and celebrated.
Possibly his best-known is "Smeddum", a Scots word which could be best translated as the colloquial term "guts". Like A Scots Quair, it is set in north-east Scotland with strong female characters.review of "Smeddum" It was dramatised by Bill Craig and the BBC, as a Play for Today in 1976, along with two other short stories, "Clay" and "Greenden".Play for Today website Also notable is his essay The Land.
As for the word itself, not only has smeddum ceased to be the sweepings off the mill floor, it is now one of the most valued qualities of the Scots character.
A native speaker and Scots language specialist, Clark has published several books of translations, including a Glaswegian rendering of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and an award-winning Scots translation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid. In 2015, he released Intae the Snaw, a collection of Scots translations which was praised by writer Matthew Fitt as "Brilliant... Tammas Clark takes the bonnie broukit bairn that is the Scots and blaws new life intae the hail clamjamfrie" and by poet Rab Wilson as "an important collection that timeously re-establishes the pouer, virr an smeddum o the Scots language!" In 2019, Clark won the first ever Scots Bairns' Book o the Year award at the inaugural Scots Language Awards. Previously editor of Scots at Bella Caledonia, Clark is now a regular columnist at The National.