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The Young Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as scots-language)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,705 ratings — published 2020
The Scottish-English Linguistic Border; Lexical Aspects (The Cooper Monographs on English and American Langauge and Literature; English Dialect Series)
by (shelved 1 time as scots-language)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Scots: The Mither Tongue (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scots-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 102 ratings — published 1986
Sonny and Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scots-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 210 ratings — published 2019
Vicky Romeo Plus Joolz (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scots-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 99 ratings — published
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as scots-language)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,257 ratings — published 1993
“We may even conclude it to be an evidence of strength, rather than of weakness, that the Scots language and the Scottish literature did not maintain a separate existence. Scottish, throwing in its luck with English, has not only much greater chance of survival, but contributes important elements of strength to complete the English...”
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“Braid Scots is still in most Scottish communities (in one or other Anglicised modification) the speech of bed and board and street and plough, the speech of emotional ecstasy and emotional stress. But it is not genteel. It is to the bourgeoisie of Scotland coarse and low and common and loutish, a matter for laughter, well enough for hinds and the like, but for the genteel to be quoted in vocal inverted commas... But for the truly Scots writer it remains a real and haunting thing, even while he tries his best to forget its existence and to write as a good Englishman.”
― Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn
― Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn