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  A 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)
  An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language by John Jamieson (1818)
     
  The Origin and Signification of Scottish Surnames with a Vocabulary of Christian Names, by Clifford Stanley Sims (1862)
 
 
 
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  Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias (1966)
 
 
 
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  Robert Burns' poems with a dictionary of Scots words
  books written by Robert Burns (google books)
     
 
 
 
Scots words
   
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
 
 
Holidays in Scotland
   
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
 
 
 
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