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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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    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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    Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect (whose proponents assert is...
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    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 the language are...
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    Old English (until 1066), Middle English (1066–13th century), Early Scots (13th century–1450), Middle Scots (from 1450) Became the chief language of governance...
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  • markedly from Early Scots, which was virtually indistinguishable from early Northumbrian Middle English. Subsequently, the orthography of Middle Scots differed...
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    Scottish people (redirect from Scots people)
    or Scots (Scots: Scots fowk; Scottish Gaelic: Albannaich) are an ethnic group and nation native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged in the early Middle...
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    form, where there was no native Scots rule to settle a dispute; and Roman law was in this way partially received into Scots law. Since the Union with England...
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    into Scots.[citation needed] Scots has its origins in the variety of early northern Middle English spoken in southeastern Scotland, also known as Early Scots...
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  • English (after 1650), and in Scotland Early Scots (before 1450), Middle Scots (c. 1450 to 1700) and Modern Scots (after 1700). Just as Modern English is...
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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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    further agitated by prominent Scots such as John Knox, who openly questioned whether her subjects had a duty to obey her. The early years of her personal rule...
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    Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700. Throughout its history, Modern Scots has...
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  • presentation of the phonological history of the Scots language. Scots has its origins in Old English (OE) via early Northern Middle English; though loanwords...
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    Scottish Gaelic (redirect from Scots Gaelic)
    August 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2018. Horsbroch, Dauvit. "1350–1450 Early Scots". Scots Language Centre. Archived from the original on 26 August 2020. Retrieved...
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  • Insular Scots comprises varieties of Lowland Scots generally subdivided into: Shetland dialect Orcadian dialect Both dialects share much Norn vocabulary...
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    James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437. The youngest of three sons, he was born in Dunfermline...
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    history of Scots law traces the development of Scots law from its early beginnings as a number of different custom systems among Scotland's early cultures...
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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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    Anglo-Frisian languages (category Pages with Scots IPA)
    These include Middle English, Early Modern English, and Late Modern English; Early Scots, Middle Scots, and Modern Scots; and the extinct Fingallian and...
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  • The Ulster Scots people or Scots-Irish are an ethnic group descended largely from Scottish and some Northern English Borders settlers who moved to the...
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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 was deployed to...
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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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    companies, A Company (The Royal Scots) of the 52nd Lowland Volunteers, and A Company (8th/9th Royal Scots) of The Royal Scots and Cameronians Territorials...
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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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  • Glasgow dialect (category Scots dialects)
    spell some of the Scots elements phonetically, often coinciding with common spelling errors, rather than using the prestigious Modern Scots conventions. The...
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    The Scots Army (Scots: Scots Airmy) was the army of the Kingdom of Scotland between the Restoration in 1660 and Union with the Kingdom of England on 1...
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    Early Scots. In the Scots equivalent of the Great Vowel Shift, the long vowels /iː/, /eː/ and /aː/ shifted to /ei/, /iː/ and /eː/ by the Middle Scots period...
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    areas of Scandinavian settlement. The first surviving major text in Early Scots literature is the fourteenth-century poet John Barbour's epic Brus, which...
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    (1999), Alexander III King of Scots, House of Lochar, ISBN 1-899863-55-9 Duncan, A. A. M. (2016). The Kingship of the Scots, 842–1292: Succession and Independence...
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