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The nature of Scots

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Tom Shearer
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Abstract

A reprint of the Introduction to the new ‘Collins Gem Scots Dictionary’, edited by Marian Makins (1995), which describes Scots as ‘the language of Germanic origin spoken by most Scots’. Tom Shearer is the lexicographer who wrote the piece.

Type
Research Article
Information
English Today , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , October 1995 , pp. 18 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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