This book analyses the development of Modern Scots orthography and compares the spelling used in key works of literature, showing how canonical writers of poetr

Purves presents Scots as a separate language in its own right, resisting the often prevalent notion that Scots is merely a dialect of English, and gives a coher

Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standar

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parlia

This is the first full scale attempt to record the diachronic development of this important English language variety and includes extensive essays by some of th