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Spelling Scots : the orthography of literary Scots, 1700-2000 /
Analyses the development of Modern Scots orthography and compares the spelling used in key works of literature. People have been writing in Scots for over 700 years, but the spelling of Scots has never been fixed, with many words, like buik, buke, book, appearing in a variety of forms. Drawing on th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; The IPA Chart ; 1 Introduction ; 2 The Consonants of Older Scots ; 3 Older Scots Vowels ; 4 The Development of Modern Scots Orthography ; 5 From Orthoepy to Activism: Orthographic Interventions ; 6 Cluster Analysis and Scots Orthography ; 7 Applying Cluster Analysis to Scots Poetry ; 8 Applying Cluster Analysis to Scots Prose ; 9 Promoting Literacy in Scots ; Appendix: Wordlists Used in Cluster Analyses ; References; Index.