ACKADUR WITH THE LANGUAGE; So we're giving you 50% more. Scots dictionary goes online.Byline: By Lachlan Mackinnon THE world's first online dictionary of the Scots language The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) (Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid) is an online Scots-English dictionary, now run by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, a charity and limited company. has been launched. The website aims to promote the language both at home and abroad and was created by a team of academics at Dundee University. The idea is to make Scots words and phrases Words and Phrases® A multivolume set of law books published by West Group containing thousands of judicial definitions of words and phrases, arranged alphabetically, from 1658 to the present. more familiar. It was launched yesterday on the same date Robert the Bruce Robert the Bruce: see Robert I, king of Scotland. was crowned King of Scotland in 1306. Many know some Scots, such as chib The Chib Rajput (Hindi: चिब, Urdu: چب) are a Muslim Rajput tribe of Gujrat. Important Chib tribes in Pakistani Kashmir are living in Bhimber, Azad Kashmir who are descendants of Baba Shadi Shaheed. for a knife used as a weapon, quine for a young woman and couthie meaning friendly. But the dictionary also features the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, a stirring statement of Scots independence, and landmark speeches from the closing sessions of the last Scottish Parliament in 1707. The site is made up of all 12 volumes of the Dictionary Of The Older Scottish Tongue The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) is a 12-volume dictionary that documents the history of the Scots language from the earliest written evidence in the twelfth century until the year 1700. DOST was compiled over a period of some eighty years, from 1931-2002. and all 10 of The Scottish National Dictionary. It has been billed as the biggest and most user-friendly collection of its kind. English lecturer Victor Skretkowicz led the project with lexicographer Susan Rennie. He said: 'For a century, editors of the Dictionary Of The Older Scottish Tongue and The Scottish National Dictionary toiled to create a historical and cultural record of Scots from 1200 to 1976. 'Through a process of integration, we've brought their linguistic, historical and cultural records together.' The project got pounds 320,000 in funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board. And John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, praised the website. The OED itself was first edited by a Scot, James Murray. The web address for the Scots dictionary is www.dsl.ac.uk WORD GAME 1. Ackadur 2. Babbyraggs 3. Caboschoun 4. Dabble-dachie 5. Eaggle-bargin 6. Fyown 7. Gaberosie 8. Huten-truten 9. Ik and An 10. Jurrie-worriein' 1. To persevere. 2. Small bits, tiny pieces. 3. Precious stone. 4. Person who splashes water while doing a washing. 5. To argue. 6.Weak. 7. A kiss. 8. Sulky. 9. To hum and 10. Snarling sound made by dog. |
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