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Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume 8, Ru-Sh

Harry D Watson editor Margaret G Dareau editor K Lorna Pike editor A J Aitken editor James A C Stevenson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:25th Jan '01

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Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue from the Twelfth Century to the End of the Seventeenth: Volume 8, Ru-Sh cover

The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when the Scots language merged with standard English. It touches every facet of medieval and renaissance Scottish life and society and supplies a wealth of illustration in the form of quotations accompanying every word and meaning it discusses. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, medicine, agriculture, and all other aspects of Scottish society. This 'Scots OED' is published in paper-bound parts (fascicles) and also as volumes, each containing several parts. Volume 8 is a cloth-bound volume containing parts 42-46 which are also available separately as fascicles. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue is unique and has no competition.

the first dicitonary of the older Scots tongue is complete * Glasgow Herald 05/05/01 *

ISBN: 9780198613060

Dimensions: 295mm x 214mm x 55mm

Weight: 2084g

688 pages