A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: From the Twelfth Century to the End of the SeventeenthPart 33 (DICTIONARY OF THE OLDER SCOTTISH TONGUE, ... CENTURY TO THE END OF THE 17TH

by William A. Craigie, A.J. Aitken, James A.C. Stevenson

The 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 merges with standard English. This `Scots OED' is published in yearly paperbound parts (fascicles). Every 4-5 years, recent fascicles are published also in a clothbound volume. Part 44 takes the dictionary up to S(c)hot, and A-S(c)hake is available in either fascicles or bound volumes from OUP.

120 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1984

About the author

Sir William Alexander Craigie was a Scottish philologist and a lexicographer.

A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C.T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.

He lectured on lexicography at the University of Chicago while working on the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, a project he pioneered. Many twentieth-century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his lectureship, including Clarence Barnhart, Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read.