Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Doric dialect, Irvine Welsh, Lallans, List of English words of Scots origin, Modern Scots, Auld Lang Syne, Phonological history of Scots, Early Scots, Middle Scots, Anglicisation, Royal burgh, Shetlandic, History of the Scots language, Provost, A Satire of the Three Estates, Makar, Campbeltown, Not proven, Apologetic apostrophe, A Red, Red Rose, Phonological history of wh, Scottish vowel length rule, Feck, Glasgow patter, Wee Willie Winkie, Oor Wullie, Scots Wha Hae, Alexander Gray, North Northern Scots, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Hector Boece, The Complaynt of Scotland, Links, Skerry, Bonspiel, Liam Logan, Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, Cutty-sark, Ulster-Scots Agency, But'n'Ben A-Go-Go, The Bonny Earl O'Moray, John Jamieson, Royal Caledonian Curling Club, Wirry-cow, Scottish Cant, Murdoch Nisbet, Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech, Scottish National Dictionary, Jock Tamson's Bairns, Records of the Parliaments of Scotland, Burns stanza, Clootie, It isnae me, Dictionary of the Scots Language, Burgh of barony, Adam Jack Aitken, Weaver Poets, Is There for Honest Poverty, Cornkister, Auld Robin Gray, Barmkin, Lord Provost, Spurtle, Burgh of regality, Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, Breeks, Dominie, Older Scots, Orcadian dialect, Williamsburgh, Report and Recommendations of the Scots Spelling Committee, Auchinleck chronicle. Excerpt: Modern Scots describes the varieties of (Lowland) Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster from 1700. Throughout its history, Modern Scots has been undergoing a process of language attrition, whereby successive generations of speakers have adopted more and more features from Standard English. This process of language contact has accelerated rapidly since widespread access to mass media in English and increased population mobility became availa...
