English & Modern Languages Faculty Course Information

‘Trainspotting’, later made into the hugely popular film of the same name, is part of a movement in contemporary Scottish      literature which reclaims the use of raw Scots dialect  Welsh transcribes his native dialect phonetically – as a valid language for literature.

Scottish poet and novelist for both adults and children. Since 2016, the Scots Makar (poet laureate), her work explores themes such as family, race, gender and love.

The author of the ‘Harry Potter’ series studied French at university. Her knowledge of the language is evident in many of the fabricated words and names that she included in the stories, which have French as their basis. Examples are Beauxbatons, which means beautiful wands, Fleur Delacour from ‘fleur’ meaning flower and ‘delacour’ meaning ‘of the court’ and Malfoy, from the French phrase ‘mal foi’ meaning ‘bad faith’).