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The current project team includes editorial staff from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and from the Scottish National Dictionary Association. In 2021, Scottish Language Dictionaries became an SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) and changed its name to Dictionaries of the Scots Language.
1932 Pronouncing Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic by Henry Cyril Dieckhoff; 1958 Gaelic Words and Expressions from South Uist and Eriskay by Rev. Allan MacDonald; 1979 Abair Facail, a pocket-dictionary by John MacDonald and Ronald Renton; 1981 The New English-Gaelic Dictionary by Derick Thomson
Modern Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700.. Throughout its history, Modern Scots has been undergoing a process of language attrition, whereby successive generations of speakers have adopted more and more features from English, largely from the colloquial register. [1]
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[5] [8] [9] It is normally considered a dialect or group of dialects of Scots, although groups such as the Ulster-Scots Language Society [10] and Ulster-Scots Academy [11] consider it a language in its own right, and the Ulster-Scots Agency [12] and former Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure [13] have used the term Ulster-Scots language.
Teuchter (English: / ˈ tj uː x t ər / TEWKH-tər, Scots: [ˈtjuxtər, ˈtʃuxtər]) [1] [2] is a Lowland Scots word sometimes used to offensively describe a Scottish Highlander, in particular a Gaelic-speaking Teuchter. [3]
The Scottish National Dictionary (SND) was published by the Scottish National Dictionary Association (SNDA) from 1931 to 1976 and documents the Modern (Lowland) Scots language. The original editor, William Grant, was the driving force behind the collection of Scots vocabulary.
List of English words of Scots origin is a list of English language words of Scots origin. See also "List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin", which contains many words which were borrowed via Highland Scots. Blackmail A form of extortion carried out by the Border Reivers, borrowed into English with less violent connotations. blatant ...