Dictionary of Scottish words, HarperCollins Publishers, Glasgow, 2009 - 181 p. The list of words covered in this book is by no means an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all the words used in Scotland or of Scottish origin, but it is intended to be an alphabetical compendium of the most interesting ones. In many cases a definitive etymology of the word has been lost in time....
Bilingual Ed. — Geddes & Grosset, Waverley Books Ltd, 2014. — 260 p. — ISBN10: 1842056026, 13 978-1842056028. The Scots-English English-Scots Dictionary is a fascinating and up-to-date guide to the language that developed alongside English in the northern parts of the British Isles. As well as including such well-known words as dreich, sassenach, kirk and kittle, it contains...
Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited, 2006. — 160 p.
Few people who are either native speakers of English or who have learnt English as a foreign or second language visit Scotland with any expectations of experiencing language difficulties. For the most part, their confidence is justified, provided at least they stick to the traditional tourist places and pursuits. The most...
Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited, 2006. — 160 p. In the second part of the twentieth century there began to be a marked increase in the number of reference books available in bookshops. No longer was the reference library of the average fairly educated household restricted to one dictionary, probably dog-eared and several decades old, one out-dated copy of Roget's Thesaurus,...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1879. — xxii + 567 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1882. — 872 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1880. — 715 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1880. — 652 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
The Ullans Press, 2012. — 40 p.
Ulster-scots language guides A core vocabulary wordlist with verb tables
This glossary is based on the dictionary database collections of the Ulster-Scots Language
Society, including verb tables and other extracts from P Robinson's Ulster-Scots: A
Grammar of the Traditional Written and Spoken Language, 2nd edition (Ullans Press,
2007) and...
University Aberdeen, 2014. — 31 p. Doric is a Scottish dialect spoken in the North East of Scotland around Aberdeen city and shire. The basics People Small talk Socialising Eating & drinking The weather Clothing Anatomy Actions Animals Further study
London - Edinburgh: W.W. & R. Chambers LTD, 1911. — 717 p. This Scottish Dictionary is intended to deal with what should interest all Scotsmen at home and abroad, as well as foreign students of later Scottish literature. It is designed to serve as a Dictionary or a Vocabulary, not of Early or of Middle Scottish, but of Modern Scottish alone, with a few exceptions. The period...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1914. — 170 p.
James Stout Angus
1830 – 1923
Belonged to Nesting; lived in Lerwick after his marriage in 1860. He was a ship’s carpenter and housewright, and the first poet to write in Shetland dialect. His poetry collection Echoes from Klingrahoull (1920) contains poems in both English and Shetland dialect, including ‘Eels’, the first Shetland...
London: Whittaker and CO. Paternoster Square, E.C. 1888. — 440 p. With an introductory chapter on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language and an appendix of Scottish proverbs.
Polygon at Edinburgh, 1999. — xli, 819 p. "The Concise Scots Dictionary" contains meanings, spelling variants, pronunciation, information on when and where words are used, grammatical information, idioms and phrases, etymologies and details of Scottish life then and now. The Concise Scots Dictionary is concerned mainly with Scots, the language of Lowland Scotland, the area...
Hippocrene Books, 1998. — 260 p. — (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary). This dictionary is a fascinating and up-to-date guide to the language that developed alongside English in the northern parts of the British Isles. In addition to introducing such well-known words as dreich, sassenach, kirk and kittle, it contains thousands of the other words that have enriched Scotland's...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1914. — 170 p.
James Stout Angus
1830 – 1923
Belonged to Nesting; lived in Lerwick after his marriage in 1860. He was a ship’s carpenter and housewright, and the first poet to write in Shetland dialect. His poetry collection Echoes from Klingrahoull (1920) contains poems in both English and Shetland dialect, including ‘Eels’, the first Shetland...
Birlinn, 2012. — 208 p. This authoritative, entertaining and eminently browsable reference book, arranged in easily accessible A - Z format, is an absorbing and imaginative feast of Scottish lore, language, history and culture, from the mythical origins of the Scots in Scythia to the contemporary Scotland of the Holyrood parliament and Trainspotting. Here Tartan Tories rub...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1879. — xxii + 567 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In...
Edinburgh: william P. Nimmo 1867. 708 стр. The words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers Whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and derived from their originals.
Hippocrene Books, 1998. — 292 p. Scots remains a thriving language as covered in this dictionary of the most widely-used words and expressions of today. Entries are arranged within fifteen categories, which express some aspect of everyday life in Scotland (eating and drinking, people, health, law). A key is provided to indicate the various contexts (colloquial, literary etc) in...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1880. — 715 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
Paisley, Alexader Gardner, 1880. — 652 p. An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. New ed., carefully rev. and collated, with the entire suppl. incorporated Jamieson’s Dictionary was first published in two volumes in 1808, then supplemented with a further two volumes in 1825. In 1808, its S...
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