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Spelling Scots acts not just as a wide-ranging reference publication to the altering orthography of Scots, but additionally as an summary of the lively interventions within the practices that experience guided Scots spelling. The e-book exhibits how canonical writers of poetry and fiction in Scots from 1700 to the current day have mixed conference and innovation in providing Scots in literary texts, and it explores the impression of key writers corresponding to Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Hogg and Stevenson.

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