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A new edition, revised and enlarged by John Longmuir (1867)
When you ask most people about the Scots language they tend to assume you mean Gaelic. However Scotland had it's own language for several centuries which was used in the Royal court. This means if you are reading old documents a lot of them are in the Scots language. Also even in more modern histories you'll also see references taken from old documents in this language.
It is said that the Scots language was an emotional language whereas English is a technical language. Even a simple comparison might be "girl" in English translated to "Lassie" in Scots. We have on the site a collection of poems in the Scots language that were taken from the English translations of 1st century Chinese poems. These were done by David Purvis and you might like also to read his views on the language at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...ay_forward.htm
John Henderson is now getting under way with this publication so over the next number of weeks this will be split down into logical chunks and provided each week until complete.
You can read about Jamieson at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ieson_john.htm
And this publication we're working on can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...eson/index.htm
Alastair
When you ask most people about the Scots language they tend to assume you mean Gaelic. However Scotland had it's own language for several centuries which was used in the Royal court. This means if you are reading old documents a lot of them are in the Scots language. Also even in more modern histories you'll also see references taken from old documents in this language.
It is said that the Scots language was an emotional language whereas English is a technical language. Even a simple comparison might be "girl" in English translated to "Lassie" in Scots. We have on the site a collection of poems in the Scots language that were taken from the English translations of 1st century Chinese poems. These were done by David Purvis and you might like also to read his views on the language at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...ay_forward.htm
John Henderson is now getting under way with this publication so over the next number of weeks this will be split down into logical chunks and provided each week until complete.
You can read about Jamieson at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ieson_john.htm
And this publication we're working on can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...eson/index.htm
Alastair