This book analyses the development of Modern Scots orthography and compares the spelling used in key works of literature, showing how canonical writers of poetr

This book analyses the development of Modern Scots orthography and compares the spelling used in key works of literature, showing how canonical writers of poetr

The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700. It is an indispe

Purves presents Scots as a separate language in its own right, resisting the often prevalent notion that Scots is merely a dialect of English, and gives a coher

This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in