A Local Treasure-Trove: John Mactaggart's 'Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia'
Recent, Recent (Social), Recent (Literature & Art), Folklore, History, Parish History, Antiquarian, Etymology
TDGNHAS Series III, 78 (2004), 131(4.91 MB)
Abstract
The distinquished tradition of Scots linguistic scholarship began long before the twentieth century and the advent of modern dialectology and lexicography. By far the greatest reference work on the Scots tongue to appear before this period, namely John Ja