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Sources for Scots pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century edit / delete

Reverse-engineering C18 Scots pronunciation from English grammarians complaining about it. There's a surprising amount of information there.

to english history language pronunciation scots ... on 29 June 2020

Scots Threip edit / delete

John M. Tait's pretty comprehensive (and often very entertainingly angry) site on the development of language standards for Scots. Lots of useful information and references here from this folksinger's perspective.

to language scotland scots standardisation ... on 29 June 2020

Scandinavian Influence... edit / delete

"This work aims primarily at giving a list of Scandinavian loanwords found in Scottish literature."

to etext history language scandinavia scots ... on 29 June 2020

Scots Syntax Atlas edit / delete

Interesting project looking at syntactical differences in different regional versions of Scots. (Presumably because they were only looking at syntax, all the examples are transcribed with English spellings, which feels a bit odd...)

to language scots syntax ... on 29 June 2020

Home - Sangstories - Stories of Scottish Songs edit / delete

"There are 150 lyrics and background stories here of traditional and newer Scottish songs sung by the Linlithgow song group Sangschule"

to folk history lyrics music scots song ... on 23 August 2014

Dictionary of the Scots Language edit / delete

"The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND)." The introductory material is very interesting.

to dictionary etext history language scotland scots ... on 11 July 2014

Freedom Come Aa Ye - Dick Gaughan's Song Archive edit / delete

The song I've been failing to learn the lyrics for at the Fish... Dick Gaughan's excellent web site comes through again.

to dick-gaughan folk music scotland scots song ... on 01 April 2011

Aye Can - Scots language - Scottish Census 2011 edit / delete

Training for the census questions -- but the useful thing is the big collection of recordings of Scots speakers from different areas. (The collection is much bigger than the links suggest; try changing the number in the URL!)

to language scotland scots ... on 05 March 2011

Tobar an Dualchais - index edit / delete

Notably especially for the field recordings of folk songs. The player uses an irritating Flash interface, but peering at the source will reveal URLs to mp4 files.

to folk history music scotland scots ... on 30 January 2011