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    Modern Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700. Throughout its history, Modern...
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    as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles, and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish...
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    Northumbrian Old English to 1100 Pre-literary Scots to 1375 Early Scots to 1450 Middle Scots to 1700 Modern Scots 1700 onwards The nature of early forms of...
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    Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of...
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  • from Early Scots, which was virtually indistinguishable from early Northumbrian Middle English. Subsequently, the orthography of Middle Scots differed from...
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  • Shetland or Shaetlan; and referred to as Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to...
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    The Scots Wikipedia (Scots: Scots Wikipædia) is the Scots-language edition of the free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It was established on 23 June 2005...
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  • Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots or Northeast Scots, refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland. There is an extensive...
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  • Old English (section Modern)
    it is very different from Modern English and Modern Scots, and largely incomprehensible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers without study. Within...
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    independently for many centuries. This modern literary dialect, "Scots of the book" or Standard Scots once again gave Scots an orthography of its own, lacking...
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  • delimiters. This is a presentation of the phonological history of the Scots language. Scots has its origins in Old English (OE) via early Northern Middle English;...
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  • How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It (or The Scottish Enlightenment:...
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  • Northern Scots refers to the dialects of Modern Scots traditionally spoken in eastern parts of the north of Scotland. The dialect is generally divided...
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    than as isolated forerunners of later Scots, a name first used to describe the language later in the Middle Scots period. Northumbrian Old English had...
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  • ancestor, Latin. Another example is the relationship between Modern Scots and English. Scots is considered to be a sister language of English because they...
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    Anglo-Frisian languages (category Pages with Scots IPA)
    These include Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English; Early Scots, Middle Scots, and Modern Scots; and the extinct Fingallian and Yola...
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  • Indian English (Caribbean English) Lowland Scots Early Scots† Middle ScotsModern Scots Glasgow Northern Scots North Northern Black Isle and Easter Ross...
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    Mary, Queen of Scots (8 December 1542 – 8 February 1587), also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, was Queen of Scotland from 14 December 1542...
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    The term came to apply specially to the devil around 1000. In early modern Scots, the word came to refer to the male equivalent of a "witch" (which can...
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  • (Older Scots form of the Modern Scots "Scots" meaning "Scottish") and may refer to: Early Scots Scotch (disambiguation) Goidelic language Scots language...
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  • Lallans (redirect from Synthetic Scots)
    the Modern Scots word lawlands [ˈlo̜ːlən(d)z, ˈlɑːlənz] meaning the lowlands of Scotland), is a term that was traditionally used to refer to the Scots language...
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  • North Northern Scots varieties, generally merging with /i/ or /e/ in other Modern Scots varieties. In most Central and Southern Scots varieties vowel...
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  • ': 87  In Merei-Tiale language, there are verbless equative clauses. In Modern Scots, examples are seen in relative clauses. She haed tae walk the hale lenth...
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    Z (category Articles containing Scots-language text)
    and ⟨zs⟩ (expressing ʒ). The letter ⟨z⟩ on its own represents /z/. In Modern Scots ⟨z⟩ is used in place of the obsolete letter ⟨ȝ⟩ (yogh) and should be...
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    Yogh (category Articles containing Scots-language text)
    The letter yogh (ȝogh) (Ȝ ȝ; Scots: yoch; Middle English: ȝogh) was used in Middle English and Older Scots, representing y (/j/) and various velar phonemes...
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    Haggis (section Modern use)
    haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva (höggva meaning 'to chop' in modern Icelandic), Modern Scots hag, meaning 'to hew' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating...
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  • dialects of modern North East England (the modern Northumbrian dialect) and Scotland. Today, the Scots language (including Ulster Scots) is descended...
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    the Second World War the Scots Guards saw action in a number of Britain's colonial wars. In 1948, the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards were deployed to...
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  • Guy's 2004 biography Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart. The film stars Saoirse Ronan as Mary, Queen of Scots, and Margot Robbie as her cousin...
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    Scottish people (redirect from Scots people)
    The Scottish people or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged...
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