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At the beginning of 2004 anyone will be able to access the definitive usage of any Scots word, ancient or modern, for free. The process of putting both the Scottish National Dictionary and the ...

IF you have ever wanted a word to describe the sound made by walking in wet mud or perhaps that of a quaking bog, then this volume of nature-themed Scots words is a delight to leaf through. The idea ...

An online Scottish dictionary aimed at revitalising the Scots tongue has been launched. The project has incorporated the 12 volumes of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and all 10 of the ...

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Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...

A series of Scottish words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. More than 10 new Scottish entries have been recorded in the newest version of the dictionary. On ...

OXFORD, England, May 1 (UPI) -- A handwritten dictionary of Scottish words and phrases compiled by James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson, has turned up at Oxford University. The Bodleian ...

AUTHOR James Kelman has helped get Scottish rhyming slang term “cream puff” into the Oxford English Dictionary. A new meaning for “cream puff” has been included in the dictionary to reflect it being a ...

Editors have included more than 40 Scottish words including the slang term for the scrotum which is defined as a 'foolish or annoying' person THE word bawbag has been added to the latest edition of ...

The word 'Bawbag' has been officially added to the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Editors at the prestigious tome have included the slang term for the scrotum along with more than 40 ...