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The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) ( Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots – English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [ 1]
Scots language. Scots[ note 1] is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots ). [ 3]
Amount; quantity (or a large amount/quantity) The greater or larger part (when used with a definite article) From the first sense can be derived "feckless", meaning witless, weak, or ineffective. "Feckless" remains a part of Modern English and Scottish English, and appears in a number of Scottish adages : "Feckless folk are aye fain o ane anither."
Teuchter ( English: / ˈtjuːxtər / 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 term is also in use with more broader meanings attached, commonly applied to any Scot perceived to be from a rural ...
Northumbrian Old English by the beginning of the 9th century in the northern portion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, now modern southeastern Scotland. Early Scots by the beginning of the 15th century. Present-day extent of Modern Scots. The history of the Scots language refers to how Anglic varieties spoken in parts of Scotland ...
Words of Scottish Gaelic origin. Cairn. Capercaillie. Claymore. Trousers. Bard. [ 1] The word's earliest appearance in English is in 15th century Scotland with the meaning "vagabond minstrel". The modern literary meaning, which began in the 17th century, is heavily influenced by the presence of the word in ancient Greek ( bardos) and ancient ...
sco-u-sd-gbglg, en-scotland-u-sd-gbglg. The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1][ 2] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3]
Scottish English ( Scottish Gaelic: Beurla Albannach) is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English ( SSE ). [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional ...