Scots word of the season : bogle
(2016)
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Scots word of the season : lift (2016)
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Scots word of the season : besom (2015)
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Scots word of the season : clamjamfry (2014)
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Scots word of the season : croup (2014)
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Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson (2014)
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In this edited volume, Robert Lawson brings together scholars with diverse specialisms including phonology, syntax, lexicology and onomastics. Jennifer Smith's Foreword sets the scene by drawing attention to the many varieties of language encountered... Read More about Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson.
Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (eds) : Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries. Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. (2013)
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Scott, M. (2013). Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. International Journal of Lexicography, 26(4), 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ect015Both of the titles discussed here represent significant firsts. Scotland in Definition is the first book to chart the lexicographical history of two of Scotland’s languages—Scots and Scottish Gaelic—and in doing so it illuminates the progress of proj... Read More about Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (eds) : Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries. Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language..
Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie (2013)
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The Reverend John Jamieson's contribution to Scottish lexicography is central to the historiography of the study of Scots as a distinct variety of language. Furthermore, his methodologies have proven extremely influential for subsequent major Scottis... Read More about Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie.
Scots word of the season : provost (2013)
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Scots word of the season : sassenach (2013)
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Scots word of the season : leerie (2012)
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Scots word of the season : stravaig (2012)
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Review Article: Minority languages in the linguistic landscape, edited by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) (2012)
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Scott, M. (2012). Review Article: Minority languages in the linguistic landscape, edited by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Current Issues in Language Planning, 13(3), 231-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2012.722381Book review
Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire (2011)
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Scott, M. (2011). Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire. Notes and Queries, 58(3), 438-439. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr077Part four of The Place-Names of Leicestershire documents the history of the place-names in the fifty-four parishes of Gartree Hundred in the south-east of the county. Study of the toponymic record of this part of Leicestershire is facilitated by thre... Read More about Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire.
Scots word of the season : mahoun (2011)
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Scots word of the week : ceilidh (2011)
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Scots word of the season : kelpie (2010)
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Scots word of the season : wean (2010)
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Review : O.J. Padel and David Parsons (eds). A commodity of good names : essays in honour of Margaret Gelling (2010)
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Scott, M. (2010). Review : O.J. Padel and David Parsons (eds). A commodity of good names : essays in honour of Margaret Gelling. Nomina, 33, 187-191
Scots word of the season : eldritch (2009)
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