Scots speakers are being invited to add their voices to the first major online archive of the country's different languages.
The results will be placed in an electronic archive - the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) - which will be made available to the public and academics alike over the internet.

The SCOTS project is grant-funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. SCOTS is a joint venture by the Department of English Language and STELLA project, University of Glasgow, and the Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh.

For full details of the BBC story, see:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1987000/1987171.stm or see the SCOTS website at:
http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/ ...

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First published: 15 May 2002