Middle Scots information

from Early Scots, which was virtually indistinguishable from early Northumbrian Middle English. Subsequently, the orthography of Middle Scots differed from...

as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles, and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish...

Northumbrian Old English to 1100 Pre-literary Scots to 1375 Early Scots to 1450 Middle Scots to 1700 Modern Scots 1700 onwards The nature of early forms of...

Early Scots was the emerging literary language of the Early Middle English-speaking parts of Scotland in the period before 1450. The northern forms of...

Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of...

the north it began to evolve into Scots.[citation needed] Scots has its origins in the variety of early northern Middle English spoken in southeastern Scotland...

the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert...

the phonological history of the Scots language. Scots has its origins in Old English (OE) via early Northern Middle English; though loanwords from Old...

version of the IPA fricative ɕ: 𝼞 𐞺 Ꞅ ꞅ : Insular S Ꟗ ꟗ : Used in Middle Scots Ꟙ ꟙ : Latin letter Sigmoid S was used in medieval palaeography $ : Dollar...

Indian English (Caribbean English) Lowland Scots Early Scots† Middle Scots† Modern Scots Glasgow Northern Scots North Northern Black Isle and Easter Ross...

considerably since that time. Middle English was succeeded in England by Early Modern English, which lasted until about 1650. Scots developed concurrently from...

The pound (Modern and Middle Scots: Pund) was the currency of Scotland prior to the 1707 Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom...

The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes...

of works in Middle Scots in the period of the Northern Renaissance. The Makars have often been referred to by literary critics as Scots Chaucerians....

Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700. Throughout its history, Modern Scots has...

The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged...

Early Scots. In the Scots equivalent of the Great Vowel Shift, the long vowels /iː/, /eː/ and /aː/ shifted to /ei/, /iː/ and /eː/ by the Middle Scots period...

his name was Johan de Bailliol; in Middle Scots it was Jhon Ballioun, and in Scottish Gaelic, Iain Bailiol. In Scots he was known by the nickname Toom...

prayer be in vain." Anglicized spelling of Middle Scots original. Smith, G. Gregory (1902). Specimens of Middle Scots. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons. p. 218...

(in Middle Scots) Thomas Nicoll Hepburn (wrote as Gabriel Setoun, 1861–1930), poet and novelist W. N. Herbert (b. 1961), poet (in English and Scots) Jeanie...

Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north...

Northern Scots refers to the dialects of Modern Scots traditionally spoken in eastern parts of the north of Scotland. The dialect is generally divided...

emerging English standard began to influence the spoken and written Middle Scots of Scotland. The grammatical and orthographical conventions of literary...

migrant languages are also spoken. Regional indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as...

Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500. Counted among the Scots makars, he lived...

Insular Scots comprises varieties of Lowland Scots generally subdivided into: Shetland dialect Orcadian dialect Both dialects share much Norn vocabulary...