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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Kingdom of Scotland (redirect from Kingdom of the Scots)
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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Languages of Scotland (redirect from Scots languages)
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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Old English (section Early history)
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 dialect (Scotland) (redirect from Northeast Scots)
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 of Scotland (redirect from James I, King of Scots)
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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Great Vowel Shift (section Northern English and Scots)
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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Scottish literature (redirect from Scots literature)
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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Alexander III of Scotland (redirect from Alexander III, King of Scots)
(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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