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Dictionary of the Scots Language: a free, online dictionary. It combines the full text of A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (12 vols, 12C - c. 1700) and the Scottish National Dictionary (10 vols, c.1700- late 20C) with its new Supplement (published in 2005) into one searchable electronic resource documenting the history of the Scots Language. It can be found at http://www.dsl.ac.uk. DSL is managed by Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Itchy Coo Books Braw books for bairns o aw ages: Itchy Coo is a best-selling, award-winning imprint which specialises in Scots Language books for children and young people. Established in January 2002, Itchy Coo has become the premier publisher of Scots Language teaching materials. *And be e sure to see Itchy Cool, a brand new website for weans and bairns that like tae write, read, draw and hae fun wi the Scots Language. Find out about Scots writing competitions and other exciting projects!

Scots Language Centre: exists to further the interests of the Scots language and its speakers

Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS) A corpus of Scottish texts from 1945 to the present day: The SCOTS project is the first large-scale project of its kind for Scotland. It provides a large electronic corpus of both written and spoken texts for the languages of Scotland. It has been online since November 2004, and, after regular updates and additions, it reached a total of 4 million words of text in May 2007. It is hoped that SCOTS will allow those interested in Scotland's linguistic diversity, and in Scottish culture and identity, to investigate the languages of Scotland in new ways, and address the gap which presently exists in our knowledge of these. It will also preserve information on these languages for future generations.

Concise Scots Dictionary cover; click for book detailsScottish Language Dictionaries: an international resource for the Scots language. Lexicographers at SLD research Scots texts from all periods of history, and record and analyse the language as it is spoken and written throughout Scotland today. From this research, new dictionaries of Scots are compiled and a series of existing texts are maintained, including the Dictionary of the Scots Language website, the scholarly single volume Concise Scots Dictionary, the Pocket Scots Dictionary which is designed for casual use, and the handy Scots Thesaurus. In April 2008 SLD were delighted to launch our new Say It In Scots series, published by Black & White.

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