A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: H-L
Author : Sir William Alexander Craigie
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
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Category : Scots language
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Author : Sir William Alexander Craigie
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
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Category : Scots language
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Author : Sir William Craigie
Publisher : Aberdeen University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 1993-10-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780080306445
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700, when the Scots language merged with standard English. It touches every facet of medieval and renaissance Scottish life and society and supplies a wealth of illustration in the form of quotations accompanying every word and meaning it discusses. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, medicine, agriculture, and all other aspects of Scottish society. This 'Scots OED' is published in paper-bound parts (fascicles) and also as volumes, each containing several parts. The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue is unique and has no competition.
Author : Sir William Alexander Craigie
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,90 MB
Release : 1931
Category : English language
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Author : William A. Craigie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1993-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780080306469
This book is intended for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts in the fields of Scots language and history.
Author : William A. Craigie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1993-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780080306643
This book is intended for all students, scholars, and enthusiasts in the fields of Scots language and history.
Author : Christian Kay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Dictionary of the older Scottish tongue
ISBN : 1474469701
This volume celebrates the completion of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue.
Author : William Alexander Craigie
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Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : A. P. Cowie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0191558079
These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two presents a systematic history of monolingual dictionaries of English and includes extensive chapters on Johnson, Webster and his successors in the USA, and the OED. It also contains descriptions of the development of dictionaries of national and regional varieties, and of Old and Middle English, and concludes with an account of the computerization of the OED. The specialized dictionaries described in Volume II include dictionaries of science, dialects, synonyms, etymology, pronunciation, slang and cant, quotations, phraseology, and personal and place names. This volume also includes an account of the inception and development of dictionaries developed for particular users, especially foreign learners of English. The Oxford History of English Lexicography unites scholarship with readability. It provides a unique and accessible reference for scholars and professional lexicographers and offers a series of fascinating encounters with the men and women involved over the centuries in the making of works of profound national and linguistic importance.
Author : H.L. Mencken
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2012-02-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 0307808785
Perhaps the first truly important book about the divergence of American English from its British roots, this survey of the language as it was spoken-and as it was changing-at the beginning of the 20th century comes via one of its most inveterate watchers, journalist, critic, and editor HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956).In this replica of the 1921 "revised and enlarged" second edition, Mencken turns his keen ear on: • the general character of American English • loan-words and non-English influences • expletives and forbidden words • American slang • the future of the language • and much, much more. Anyone fascinated by words will find this a thoroughly enthralling look at the most changeable language on the face of the planet.
Author : Margaret G. Dareau
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780198605423
The Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines and illustrates every meaning of every word used in written English in Scotland up to 1700. It is an indispensable reference tool for historians of Scots language, literature, politics, law, and social history.