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Your Word Against Mine
Radio Scotland
From Friday 19th August
1130-1200BST
Do you know your oxter from your bahookie?

Cameron Stout, presenter of Your Word Against MineIn this brand new quiz show groups from around Scotland compete in celebration of the Scots language.

Listen to clips from the programme…
Speaker icon Cameron discovers a failing of the Scots language
Speaker icon A Lonely Hearts advert from Shetland
Speaker icon Is your shoppy door open?

The teams are vying for a stoater of a prize: Cameron's quaich. But they'll have to work hard to get it! In order to win their heats, sides are required to demonstrate a broad understanding of the Scots language over five rounds: Let's Get Yokit; Diction or Fiction; the Mystery Themed Round; Where am I? and Dialect-able.

It's not just about local words and phrases - team members may have a thorough understanding of their own region's dialect but what about other areas of the country? Most of us would recognise a Glasgow voice but would you know a Wigtown accent? And, which team will reveal themselves to be the country's top culture vultures? Their knowledge of Scotland's artistic heritage will also be put to the test.

Join Cameron each week to discover which teams are heid bummers and which teams are just plain glaikit.

Your Word Against Mine begins its seven week run on Friday 19th August at 1130BST on Radio Scotland. Test your own knowledge of Scots in the Voices competition.

More Voices programmes: Big Scots Road Trip : Last in Line : Muriel Gray's Trip off the Tongue : Radio nan Gaidheal : Scunnered : Welcome Home Peter Kinnen



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