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Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Author : Susan Rennie

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 299 pages

File Size : 12,50 MB

Release : 2012-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 019963940X

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The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.





An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: Illustrating the Words in Their Different Significations, by Examples from Ancient and Modern Writers; Shewing Their Affinity to Those of Other Languages, and Especially the Northern; Explaining Many Terms, Which, Though Now Obsolete in England, Were Formerly Common to Both Countries; and Elucidating National Rites, Customs, and Institutions, in Their Analogy to Those of Other Nations: to which is Prefixed, a Dissertation on the Origin of the Scottish Language

Author : John Jamieson

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Page : 750 pages

File Size : 12,29 MB

Release : 1808

Category : Scots language

ISBN :

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