Observations on the Scottish Dialect
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. Words peculiar to the Scots, or, which they ufe in afenfe different from the Engll/J). 'I HAT the Scots fhould indulge a - ftrong partiality in favour of their own dialect, is the lefs to be wondered at, when we confider how many words are now condemned as Scoticifms, whkh were formerly admired for their ftrength and beauty, and may ftill be found in the writings of Chaucer, of Spenfer, of Shake- fpeare, and other celebrated Englifh authors. Indeed, many words in the old Englifh or Scottifli dialects, are fo empha- tical and fignificant, that, as Ruddiman ob- ferves, it is difficult to find words in the modern EngUflv capable of expreffing their fullfull force, and genuine meaning. But what our language has loft in ftrength, it has gained in elegance and correctnefs. In the following Glofiary, as it may be called, it is propofed to follow an alphabetical order, and to arrange the words under four general heads, namely, verbs, adjectives, nouns, and particles. With little difficulty it might have been extended to a much greater length: but I wifhed not to include the words which have grown obfo- lete among the Scots themfelves, nor to trouble the reader with tedious obfervations of an etymological nature. I have endeavoured, however, with the afliftance of Dr. Johnfon, Mr. Ray, and that excellent gloffarift Ruddiman, to gratify the curiofity of thofe who may wifh to know from what language any particular word is fuppofed to be derived, or with which of the northern dialedsdialects it may be more immediately connected. For as the rhoft learned of our Englifh Lexicographers has obferved, the Dutch, the Belgick, and the German, like our language, are derived from the Teutonic, and are therefore to be accounted, not the parents, but the fitters of the Englifh. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458833778 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458833771 |
| Weight | 0.36 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 102 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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