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TO celebrate the Scots language and in the spirit of Burns day looming, The Scottish Sun in conjunction with Harper Collins has 50 copies of the Scots Dictionary to give away. With nearly 1,800 ...

Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...

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Before the meteoric rise in printing technology, most European nations were a hodgepodge of dialects and linguistic variations. More of a flowing fabric of interwoven words across the continent, than ...

An online Scottish dictionary aimed at revitalising the Scots tongue has been launched. The project has incorporated the 12 volumes of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and all 10 of the ...

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A number of Scots are among the men and women who died in 2009 who have been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Among the 225 new biographies added, more than 20 have close personal ...

A number of Scots are among the men and women who died in 2009 who have been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Among the 225 new biographies added, more than 20 have close personal ...