Charles Jones lays his cards right on the table in the very title of this stimulating and informative little book. The language spoken by the people of Scotland is English, in a Scottish variety, of ...
There’s some are fou o’ brandy. —Robert Burns, The Holy Fair Full of a brandied kind of Scots nationalism, a bearded, kilted, 6-ft. 5½-in. classical scholar named Douglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young has ...
“There has been more influence exerted on the guid Scots tongue from Lallans and Doric sources”, Robert Scott tells us (Letters, 14 December). How much confusion is it possible to pack into one short ...