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• Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language by John Jamieson & John Johnston, John Longmuir (1867)
• Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish dictionary with memoir & introduction (1887)
• Desultory notes on Jamieson's Scottish dictionary by James Montgomerie-Fleming (1899)
• Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish language by John Jamieson & John Longmuir, David Donaldson (1879)
• Scot's dialect dictionary by Alexander Warrack & William Grant (1911)
• Dictionary of Lowland Scotch & introduction on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language & Scottish proverbs, by Charles Mackay (1888)
• Dictionary of the Scottish language by Thomas Brown (1845)
• Dictionary of the Scottish idiom in which the significance of the words is given in English and German, by Robert Motherby (1826)
• Observations
on the Scottish dialect by John Sinclair (1782)
• Lowland Scotch as spoken in the lower Strathearn, district of Perthshire, by James Wilson (1915) vocabulary by topics
• The dialect of Banffshire with
a glossary of words not in Jamieson's Scottish dictionary, by Walter Gregor (1866)
• The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames with a Vocabulary of Christian Names, by Clifford Stanley Sims (1862)
• grammar & usual phrases...
• Manual of modern Scots by William Grant & James Main Dixon (1921)
• The pronunciation of English in Scotland by William Grant (1913)
• The dialect of Robert Burns as spoken in central Ayrshire,
by James Wilson (1923)
• Scandinavian influence
on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias (1966)
• books about Scots language : Google books & Internet archive
• texts written by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Psalms & Book of Proverbs (Bible)
• translation of French poems
• Scottish texts (university of Glascow)
• Robert Burns' poems with a dictionary of Scots words
• The
complete works of Robert Burns (1865)
• Specimens of Middle Scots (15-17th) with introduction, notes & glossary, by George Gregory Smith (1902)
• Two ancient Scottish poems: The Gaberlunzie-man & Christ's kirk on the green (15th) with notes by John Callander (1782)
| guid mornin! | good morning! |
| guid tae see ye! | glad to see you! |
| whit like? | how are you? |
| jist rare | very good |
| guid bye! | good bye! |
| see ye efter! | see you later! |
| A'm sorry | I'm sorry |
| whit a bonnie day | what a beautiful day! |
| that's richt! | that's right! |
| ay / naw | yes / no |
| the day | today |
| the morn | tomorow |
| the noo | now |
| the nicht | this night |
| Ne'er day | New year's day |
| Burns' Nicht | Burns supper: Robert Burns' birthday, the 25th of January, 1759 |
| Cannlemas | Candlemas |
| Fastern’s een | Shrove Tuesday |
| Pace | Easter |
| Beltane | Mayday |
| Whissunday | Whitsun |
| Lammas | August, 1st |
| Hallae een | Hallowe'en |
| Yuil Een | Christmas Eve |
| Yuil | Christmas, Yule |
| Hogmanay | New year's eve |