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You talked of Scotland as a lost cause and that is not true. Scotland is an unwon cause ... — John Steinbeck, in a letter to Mrs John F. Kennedy We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing ...
The Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech (SCOTS) is an ongoing project to build a corpus of modern-day (post-1940) written and spoken texts in Scottish English and varieties of Scots. SCOTS has been available online since November 2004, and can be freely searched and browsed. It reached 4.7 million words by 2015. [1]
The Luckenbooth brooch has motifs similar to the Claddagh ring, also using the heart and crown. Heart-shaped brooches in parts of Europe date back to late medieval times, but this design probably did not appear in Scotland before the 17th century. [5] [6] Silver was the usual material, [1] [5] although gold heart brooches were made for wealthy ...
In the poem as it survives, there are two exchanges. Dunbar opens with a three-stanza address to his commissar which pours lofty scorn on the poetic pretensions of Kennedy and his commissar, describing what must happen if their self-promotion should move him to reluctantly unleash his own far superior powers; which boast Kennedy answers, also in three stanzas, with a direct, highly ...
A copper plaque by Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland.The Kirk is situated below Arthur's Seat and next to Duddingston Loch. "Jock Tamson's bairns" is a Scots (and Northumbrian English) dialect version of "Jack (John) Thomson's children" but both Jock and Tamson in this context take on the connotation of Everyman.
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A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript, the major source for Scottish Medieval and Early Modern poetry. Poetry of Scotland includes all forms of verse written in Brythonic, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, French, English and Esperanto and any language in which poetry has been written within the boundaries of modern Scotland, or by Scottish people.
For example, th-fronting is commonly found, and typical Scottish features such as the post-vocalic /r/ are reduced, [26] although this last feature is more likely to be a development of Central Belt Scots origin, unrelated to Anglo-English nonrhoticity. [27]