Can A jist mind fowks afore stairtin the ‘nae standart/whit dialect’ airgument (again), there loads o grand stuff oot there awreddies. Jings, A’m scunnert wi aw this tuim argiement. Fowk have bin publishin buiks in Scots fur a hunter year or mair. There wis a grammar lot in 1921 (left), we’ve has guid Engish-Scots dictionars syne the echties. FFS can we no jist yaise whit we awreddies got an muive on?
Sae fowk hae bin warkin rael hard tae document an big up Modren Scots fur a lang time. Please hae a swatch at a fyow o these afore declaring Scots ‘non-existent’ or just a boorach o spoken dialects.
1. Lairners coorse LC Wilson (2002) Luath Scots Language Learner
http://www.luath.co.uk/
2. Dictionars – Scots-English
(a) The Essential Scots Dictionary (2005 http://www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk/
(b) Online http://www.scots-online.org
3. Gremmars
(a) Modren Scots Grammar (2012) http://www.luath.co.uk/
(b) Literary Scots Grammar – Manual of Modern Scots (1921)
https://archive.org/details/
(c) http://www.scots-online.org haes a brilliant grammar section an aw
(d) Alexander Berg’s 2005 Modern Scots – another grammar updating the Manual by takkin in a load o modren research, https://www.academia.edu/2182766/