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Warlock (626 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The term came to apply specially to the devil around 1000. In early modern Scots, the word came to refer to the male equivalent of a "witch" (which can

Scottish National Dictionary Association (459 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scots language, in particular by producing a standard dictionary of modern Scots. This primary aim was fulfilled in 1976 with the completion of the 10-volume

Acceptilation (145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Acceptilation is the application of the Roman law principle of acceptilatio in modern Scots law regarding obligations, whereby a creditor verbally acknowledges a

Bible translations into Scots (344 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

classical scholar, produced the first New Testament translation into modern Scots from the original koine Greek (though, in an appendix, when Satan speaks

Eneados (853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Constituents, Patterning and Shift in Gavin Douglas' Eneados, Ph.D. thesis by Gordon McGregor Kendal, 2008 Downloadable modernization (Modern Scots) by John Law

1769 in Scotland (324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– first Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, opens. Richard Hurd's Ancient and Modern Scots Songs published. Scotland portal Patent 913; specification accepted January

Big Jubilee Read (812 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Times. "Bahoochie". 26 August 2021. Guinness, Emma (25 January 2022). "Modern Scots language should be celebrated the same as Robert Burns". The National

1769 in poetry (555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Senate-House at Cambridge, July 1, 1769 Richard Hurd, Ancient and Modern Scots Songs John Ogilvie, Paradise, published anonymously Clara Reeve, Original

Delict (Scots law) (3,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

based on Aquilian liability rather than on the actio iniuriarum). The modern Scots law pertaining to reparation for negligent wrongdoing is, as might be

Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings (40 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

buildings, as voted for by its readers. DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments "Revealed: top 100 modern Scots buildings". 2 October 2005. Retrieved 5 January 2016.

Norse–Gaels (1,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Hebrides and Isle of Man. Several Old Norse words also influenced modern Scots English and Scottish Gaelic, such as bairn (child) from the Norse barn

Cèilidh (3,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in step with the beat of the music. About half of the dances in the modern Scots cèilidh, however, are couples' dances performed in a ring. These can

Alexander Scott (20th-century poet) (483 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

ISBN 9780851581156 Selected Poems, 1943 - 1974, Akros Publications, 1975 Modern Scots Verse 1922 - 1977 (Editor), Akros Publications, 1978 Scotch Passion:

Scottish criminal law (1,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and "not proven" result in an acquittal. The 'not proven' verdict in modern Scots criminal law can be described as an historical accident. Historically

McLoughlin (613 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

into Argyll, in Scotland, where Middle Irish Mac/Nic Lochlainn became Modern Scots Gaelic Mac/Nic Lachlainn, most commonly spelled MacLachlan in Scots and

Stair Society (406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published in 1681, and the work is now considered the foundation of modern Scots law. James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair Selden Society "Stair Society"

A Satire of the Three Estates (3,280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scottish Youth Theatre's Summer Festival. The script was translated into modern Scots by Fiona McGarry, and the play was performed in the round in The Cottier

Kenning (3,728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

uncanny, "surreal" or "supernatural", and canny, "shrewd", "prudent". Modern Scots retains (with slight differences between dialects) tae ken "to know"

Lists of landmark court decisions (2,332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lord Atkin established the neighbour principle as the foundation of the modern Scots delict (English tort) of negligence. This case used a wide ratio decidendi

Burrell Collection (3,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

extraordinary". The Observer. Retrieved 26 April 2022. "Revealed: top 100 modern Scots buildings". The Scotsman. 2 October 2005. Retrieved 26 April 2022. "Museum

Pictish language (3,958 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

expanded on this in 1789, claiming that Pictish was the predecessor to modern Scots. Pinkerton's arguments were often rambling, bizarre and clearly motivated

John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair (902 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

circulation since the 1660s and generally accepted as 'the foundation of modern Scots law.' With this background, John followed his father into a legal career

Caithness (5,514 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

London-Berlin, Asher & Co. Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. The Scottish National Dictionary (1929–1976)

Scotch (adjective) (1,243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

employed the term Scottish when people were the subject. Scots (the modern Scots language form of early Scots Scottis) predominated in Scotland until

Scots Language Centre (371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gov.scot. Retrieved 8 September 2021. "Scotslanguage.com - 1990-2020 Modern Scots 6". www.scotslanguage.com. Retrieved 27 February 2023. Bann, Jennifer

Patrick Hepburn (bishop) (1,274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Catalogue, p. 150. Donaldson, "Scottish Episcopate", p. 355. In early modern Scots, Hepburn "ever was ane hure maister all his dayis and committit huredome

Lenition (3,066 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Irish to /t̪ʰuəx/, and complete deletion in some Modern Irish and most Modern Scots Gaelic dialects, thus /t̪ʰuə/. An example of historical lenition in the

Marriage in Scotland (2,551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cases were initiated relatively far down the social scale. Under early modern Scots law, there were three forms of "irregular marriage" which can be summarised

Restitution and unjust enrichment (4,698 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which Lord Roger essentially laid the bedrock for what is now considered modern Scots unjustified enrichment law, bringing together the fragmented law into

Apostrophe (16,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

start an explicit lifetime. Apologetic apostrophe – use of apostrophe in Modern Scots orthography, marking the absence of a consonant in a Standard English

Shuggie Bain (3,495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Times. "Bahoochie". 26 August 2021. Guinness, Emma (25 January 2021). "Modern Scots language should be celebrated the same as Robert Burns". The National

Peer Gynt (7,011 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

toured a production. This interpretation, with much of the dialogue in modern Scots, received mixed reviews. The cast included Gerry Mulgrew as the older

Thomas Smith (barrister) (551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

influential, interesting and controversial figures in the development of modern Scots law. Smith published a large number of works on legal subjects. Among

Conan the Barbarian (8,679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Scottish (the Celtic Gaels) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work. In the same work, Howard also described

Tort (21,972 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to both an aquilian action and an actio iniuriarum. Additionally, the modern Scots law pertaining to reparation for negligent wrongdoing is based on the

James Main Dixon (661 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wrote, The Spiritual Meaning of Tennyson's "In Memoriam" and Manual of Modern Scots. His sister, Mary Dixon, married Cargill Gilston Knott in 1885. Jones

Samson Press (831 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

poetry. In 1932 the press published 5 songs from the Auvergnat; done into Modern Scots, by Willa Muir. She and Flora Grierson co-authored an unpublished piece

Scottish island names (6,443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ending -øy or -ey for "island" becoming -aigh in Gaelic and then -ay in modern Scots/English. Perhaps surprisingly Shetland may have a Gaelic root—the name

St Peter's Seminary, Cardross (2,414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

God forgot". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 March 2024. "Revealed: top 100 modern Scots buildings". The Scotsman. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original

Joseph McKenzie (365 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

McKenzie was held at the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. "'Father of modern Scots photography' Joseph McKenzie dies". BBC News. 15 July 2015. Retrieved

Andrew Buchanan of Drumpellier (1,631 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1093/nq/150.21.361. ISSN 1471-6941. Scots Magazine viii 30 "Acknowledgements", Modern Scots, Edinburgh University Press, pp. viii, 30 March 2018, doi:10.1515/9781474416887-001

Deaths in July 2015 (10,397 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marcus, Opera Benefactor and Ex-Goldman Partner, Dies at 85 'Father of modern Scots photography' Joseph McKenzie dies Aleksandra Jaśkiewicz Archived 2016-03-07

Powers of the police in Scotland (2,833 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Carloway Review as being "a peculiar, if not unique, feature of modern Scots criminal procedure". The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 was introduced

Tartan (58,997 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

neo-Jacobitism is "both irritating kitsch and a language of identity" for modern Scots. After several decades of intellectual hostility toward tartan (e.g.

European witchcraft (15,712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

('craft'). The masculine form was wicca ('male sorcerer'). In early modern Scots, the word warlock came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (which

Mairi Robinson (1,259 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

table that allowed to recreate the sound of a word in Early, Middle and Modern Scots, all in one handy volume. The dictionary was published again in a new

Alexander Bergs (392 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1421–1503). Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2005. ISBN 978-3110183108 Modern Scots. Zweite überarbeitete Auflage, Lincom Europa, München/Newcastle 2005

Elsie Smeaton Munro (566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1923): 627. Hamilton, William Hamilton (1971). Holyrood; a garland of modern Scots poems. Internet Archive. Freeport, N.Y., Books For Libraries Press. p

The Boy in the Train (4,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

vernacular tongue as a literary medium", lecturing and publishing on Modern Scots Poetry. Robb was the first to name Mary Campbell Smith as author of the

Sorcery (goetia) (6,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

('craft'). The masculine form was wicca ('male sorcerer'). In early modern Scots, the word warlock came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (which