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- What is Lallans?
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What is Lallans?
Language or Dialect?
Like Modern English it developed from Old English a Germanic dialect but there are significant differences in its vocabulary pronounciation and grammar.
Some major features of Lallans follow:
A gerund ending with -in rather than -ing.
Use of 'ae' or 'a' where English has o.
Participles ending in -and and -an instead of -ing.
The -ed suffix is -it or -t.
Ken for Know
One is ane or yin.
Vowel usually a(u) sometimes o(u) plus LL in Standard English is aul aa or aw or awl.
H dropping. Also V from the middle of words.
A plural marker that is -is or -ys.
Confusion and interexchange of sh and s sounds at the beginning of words.
Metathesis of r with thirst becoming thrist etc.
Loan words from French spelt with a y after l or n if the original French word had a palatal sound.
"WH" spelt quh or qh.
Lallans Language Links
Language Resources Online
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
- An Online Electronic Lexicon of Lallans Scots!
Great Stuff on Amazon about the Lallans Language!
A Dictionary of Scots Words & Phrases in Current Use (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebook)
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Scots-English/English-Scots Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary)
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Lallans Scots Poets
A list of the some of the major Scots Poets
some of these poets wrote in Scots English rather than Lallans Scots but I have included them if they wrote in a "scottish" way about Scotland!
The list is in chronological order.
Various Balladeers Makars and Folksongs!
John Barbour 1320 - 95 Author of The Bruce
James the First 1394 - 1437. The Kingis Quair
Robert Henryson 1420 - 1490 The Testament of Cresseid and other poems.
William Dunbar 1460 - 1520 Various poems including the famous Lament for the Makaris
Gavin Douglas 1475 - 1522 translated the Aeneid.
Sir David Lindsay 1490 - 1555
Alexander Scott 1520 - 1590
Sir Robert Sempill of Beltrees 1595 - 1680
Grizel Baillie 1665 - 1746
Allan Ramsay 1684 - 1758
Alison Rutherford / cockburn 1712 - 94
Jean Elliott 1727 - 1805
Robert Fergusson 1750 - 74
Robert Burns 1759 - 96
Caroline Oliphant Lady Nairne 1766 - 1843
Anne Lindsay 1750 - 1825
Elizabeth Hamilton 1758 - 1816
Joanna Baillie 1762 - 1816
James Hogg 1770 - 1835
Walter Scott 1771 - 1832
George MacDonald 1824 - 1905
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 94
Violet jacob 1863 -1946
Marion Angus 1866 - 1946
Helen Cruikshank 1886 - ?
Edwin Muir 1887 - 1959
Hugh McDiarmid 1892 - ?
Kathkeen Raine 1908 -
Great Lallans Stuff on Amazon
Anthologies of Lallans Scots Poetry
The Northern Muse. an Anthology of Scots Vernacular Poetry.
Complied by John Buchan. I own a copy!
It's excellent!
The Bruce: Or, The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Part 3
The great Epic of Robert Bruce by Barbour
More songs of Angus, and others
Violet Jacob is one of Scotland's most famous women poets
The King's Quair: A Poem
Written by James the First while in captivity in England
William Dunbar: The Complete Works (Middle English Texts)
If you cant afford this try to find the Faber Edition!
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- Gordon_Hamilton Gordon_Hamilton Nov 21, 2008 @ 7:27 am
- Very informative lens.
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