Copyright

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      First edition 2018

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

About this book

What is in this Dictionary?

The History of Scots

The Dialects of Scots

The Vocabulary of Scots

Using this book

       Scots Dictionary

A

B

C

       D

       E

       F

       G

       H

       I

       J

       K

       L

       M

       N

       O

       P

       Q

       R

       S

       T

       U

       V

       W

       Y

       Z

       About the Publisher

Introduction

      This book was first published in 1995 as Collins Gem Scots Dictionary, with the aim of providing a handy and accurate guide to the words and phrases used in contemporary Scotland. Many things have changed in Scotland since the publication of the first edition: the political map of the country has been literally redrawn, with single-tier council areas replacing a two-tier system based on regions and districts; more dramatically, the Scotland Act of 1998 established