A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the SeventeenthPart XLIII: Sanct to S(c)hake (DICTIONARY OF THE ... CENTURY TO THE END OF THE 17TH (FASCICLE)) - Softcover

Craigie, Sir William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198613024 ISBN 13: 9780198613022

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 merges 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 each word and meaning it discusses. An indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, medicine, agriculture, and all other aspects of Scottish society, it is published in yearly paper-bound parts (fascicles). Every 4-5 years, recent fascicles are published also in a cloth-bound volume. Part 43 takes the dictionary up to Sham, and A-Sanct is now available in either fascicles or bound volumes from OUP.

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["A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue] touches every facet of medieval and renaissance Scottish life and society, and supplies a wealth of illustration in the form of quotations for every word and meaning presented."--College & Research Libraries News

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198613024
• ISBN 13: 9780198613022
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Aitken A. J., Dareau Margaret G., Stevenson James A. C., Watson Harry D.