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A Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Containing an Explanation of the Words Used by the Most Celebrated Ancient and Modern Scottish Authors (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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These changes have taken place in langua ges possessing every advantage requisite for ensuring stability. They had standards to which they could appeal in cases of doubt, ci ther with regard to the construction of a sen tence, the purity of mphrase, or' the meaning of a word; they Were the written languages (if the most polite authors; they were spoken in courts, and in public assemblies; they were the languages of the bar and the theatre; yet, notwithstanding, the number of obsolete ex pressions are infinitely greater than what one would be apt to imagine, without examination, and not a. Few words have undergone a com pleta alteration in their significations.
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- Publication date2020
- ISBN 10 1332120652
- ISBN 13 9781332120659
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages269
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