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How Scots Works is an extract from Unlocking Scots, a new history and overview of the Scots language, due for completion in 2023. (28 pages PDF)
Contents
Preface
1. The missing manual
2. A dislocation
3. What is ‘Scots’ anyway?
4. But is Scots really a language?
5. What kind of language is Scots?
7. The 'no standards' myth
8. The loss of literacy
9. What about the Scots dialects?
10. Scots as ‘nobody’s child’
11. The threat to Scots
12. ‘Ye’r no deid yet’
Conclusion: What next for Scots?
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