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

What would you say if someone gave you a bap, a dap, or a garron? How would you feel if they called you a dux or a sneuter? Do you know what to do with a flane,

A Scot's dialect dictionary, comprising the words in use from the latter part of the seventeenth century to the present day