Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Author: Susan Rennie

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 019963940X

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The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.

Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Author: Susan Rennie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 0191623695

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This is the first full account of the making of John Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language. The dictionary was published in two volumes in 1808, with a two-volume Supplement following in 1825. Lists of Scots words had been compiled before, but Jamieson's was the first complete dictionary of the language. It was a landmark in the development of historical lexicography and was an inspiration for later lexicographers, including Sir James Murray, founding editor of the OED. Susan Rennie's account of Jamieson's work and the methods he developed interweaves biography, lexicography, and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded account of the man, his work, and his times. It is the first study to draw on Jamieson's correspondence and the surviving manuscript materials for the Dictionary and Supplement to reveal Jamieson's working methods and the important contributions made by Sir Walter Scott and others to his work.

Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In Which the Words Are Explained in Their Different Senses, Authorized by the Names of the Writers by
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In Which the Words Are Explained in Their Different Senses, Authorized by the Names of the Writers by

Author: John Jamieson

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781015887411

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Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots

Author: Susan Rennie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-06

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 019963940X

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The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.

A Scots Dictionary of Nature
A Scots Dictionary of Nature

Author: Amanda Thomson

Publisher: Saraband

Published: 2018-09-20

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1912235757

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Scotland is a nation of dramatic weather and breathtaking landscapes – of nature resplendent. And, over the centuries, the people who have lived, explored and thrived in this country have developed a rich language to describe their surroundings: a uniquely Scottish lexicon shaped by the very environment itself. A Scots Dictionary of Nature brings together – for the first time – the deeply expressive vocabulary customarily used to describe land, wood, weather, birds, water and walking in Scotland. Artist Amanda Thomson collates and celebrates these traditional Scots words, which reveal ways of seeing and being in the world that are in danger of disappearing forever. What emerges is a vivid evocation of the nature and people of Scotland, past and present; of lives lived between the mountains and the sky.