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The current project team includes editorial staff from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and from the Scottish National Dictionary Association. In 2021, Scottish Language Dictionaries became an SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) and changed its name to Dictionaries of the Scots Language.
Scottish and North English dialect. laddie A boy. lassie A girl. links Sandy, rolling ground, from Old English hlinc (ridge). pernickety From pernicky. minging literally "stinking", from Scots "to ming". plaid From Gaelic plaide or simply a development of ply, to fold, giving plied then plaid after the Scots pronunciation. pony
Laddie Cliff, British dancer, choreographer, actor, producer, writer and director born Clifford Albyn Perry (1891–1937); Lauren Laddie Gale (1917–1996), American Hall-of-Fame basketball player
Glasgow Standard English (GSE), the Glaswegian form of Scottish English, spoken by most middle-class speakers; Glasgow vernacular (GV), the dialect of many working-class speakers, which is historically based on West-Central Scots, but which shows strong influences from Irish English, its own distinctive slang and increased levelling towards GSE ...
Scottish Gaelic: Sasannach, in older literature Sacsannach / Sagsananch; the English language is Beurla. Sassenach is still used by Scottish speakers of English and Scots to refer to English people, mostly negatively. Cornish: Sows, plural Sowson; the English language is Sowsnek; Welsh: Sais, plural Saeson; the English language is Saesneg
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This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
Bonnie is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean or Bonnie Dundee about John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (handsome, pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good).