Spelling Scots: The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700-2000

by John Corbett and Jennifer Bann

Spelling Scots acts not only as a wide-ranging reference book to the changing orthography of Scots, but also as an outline of the active interventions in the practices that have guided Scots spelling. The book shows how canonical writers of poetry and fiction in Scots from 1700 to the present day have blended convention and innovation in presenting Scots in literary texts, and it explores the influence of key writers such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748643052
• ISBN13: 9780748643059
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 9.1"