A Scotticism is a phrase or word, used in English, which is characteristic of Scots.[1][2][3]
^Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-04-21. An idiom or mode of expression characteristic of Scots; esp. as used by a writer of English.
^"Scotticism definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary".
^"Definition of SCOTTICISM". www.merriam-webster.com.
A Scotticism is a phrase or word, used in English, which is characteristic of Scots. Scotticisms are generally divided into two types: covert Scotticisms...
Scottish Gaelic (/ˈɡælɪk/, GAL-ik; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch...
Scotland at the University of Edinburgh. Scotticisms are generally divided into two types: covert Scotticisms, which generally go unnoticed as being particularly...
David Hume and Adam Smith, who went to great lengths to get rid of every Scotticism from their writings. Following such examples, many well-off Scots took...
"Ru’glen’s wee roond red lums reek briskly". (These are an adaptation of a Scotticism that correlates a smoking chimney with a prosperous, healthy and long...
(144–145) Shaw, Historical origins. Appendix article: Critical Review of the Scottic or Gaelic History, pp. 18–19 Woolf, From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, pp...
Enough’, pp. 69-83. Newton, ‘We’re Indians Sure Enough’, pp. 163-175. Scottic Gaelic. Modern Language Association, citing Census 2000. Retrieved February...
changes were made in the text in different republications. Some add extra Scotticisms, e.g. "To the lords" becomes "Tae the lairds". The authentic long text...
southern dialect, perhaps after being educated in England, or that the Scotticisms were "translated" by later scribes. It seems a more likely suggestion...
letters, and the dotted ornamentation of the capital letters, in "the Scottic style", but this, of course, may have been done by Gaelic monks at Bobbio...
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