Ebook: Wir Ain Leid. An Innin tae Modren Scots

(место издания не указано, электронный документ) 2005. — 300 p.Everyday speech in lowland Scotland varies from speaker to speaker. This is often referred to as a speech continuum. This continuum ranges from Traditional Scots, often called Braid Scots or Scotch, the Doric, the Buchan Claik or the Moray Claik and Lallans (Lowlands) – to Scottish Standard Englsh (p.97) Thus many people in Scotland have access to the features of two linguistic systems and are able to range from one to the other according to the demands of the situation in which they find themselves. Such decisions are usually based on stylistic and contextual factors, the use of Scots being far more likely among the working-class and older rural people, especially those whose exposure to the anglicizing endeavors of the Scottish education system has not been longer than necessary.This book concentrates wholly on the Traditional Scots end of this speech continuum. This includes archaic, and some obsolete vocabulary which has been replaced by standard English equivalents. Such vocabulary is still used in literary Scots.