Anglophobe Version
Denton Fox, 2 February 1984
The New Testament in Scots
translated by William Laughton Lorimer.
Canongate, 476 pp., £17.50, October 1983,0 900025 24 7 Show More
translated by William Laughton Lorimer.
Canongate, 476 pp., £17.50, October 1983,
Scotland and the Lowland Tongue
edited by J. Derrick McClure.
Aberdeen University Press, 256 pp., £17, September 1983,0 08 028482 5 Show More
edited by J. Derrick McClure.
Aberdeen University Press, 256 pp., £17, September 1983,
“... English, taking all the southern poets possessed, even down to their southern linguistic forms. Mairi Robinson, on the other hand, produces an excellent large-scale map of variation between Scots and English in the versions of the Scots Confession of 1560. Her conclusions, crudely, are that ‘written English was regarded as being “our commoun ... ”
