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The disappointed lover ; to which are added, Up in the morning, Wellington's address, My bonny Jean. (Stirling : Printed by W. Macnie, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
Poems / (Ayr [Scotland] : printed at the Ayrshire Express, 1861), by Sarah Parker Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
Shetland fireside tales; or, The hermit of Trosswickness. (Edinburgh, Edinburgh Pub. Co., 1877), by George Stewart and G. S. L. (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of Lowland Scotch : with an introductory chapter onthe poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language and an appendix of scottish proverbs / (Boston : Ticknor, 1888), by Charles Mackay and G. May (page images at HathiTrust)
The Scottish Gallovidian encyclopedia / (London : Hamilton, Adams and Co. ; Glasgow : Morison, 1876), by John Mactaggart (page images at HathiTrust)
A presentation of the grammatical inflexions in Androw of Wyntoun's "Orygynale cronykil of Scotland"... (Leipzig, O. Schmidt, 1898), by Richard Henry Hudnall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Examples of printed folk-lore concerning the Orkney & Shetland islands, (London, Pub. for the Folklore society by D. Nutt, 1903), by George Fraser Black and Northcote Whitridge Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Falls of Clyde : or, The fairies; a Scotish dramatic pastoral, in five acts. With three preliminary dissertations. (Edinburgh : W. Creech, 1806), by John Black (page images at HathiTrust)
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals. (Edinburgh, Printed for A. Constable and Company, and A. Jameson by Abernethy & Walker, 1818), by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocket dictionary of the Scottish idiom in which the significance of the words is given in English and German, chiefly calculated to promote the understanding of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Rob. Burns, and Allan Ramsay &c., with an appendix containing notes explicative of Scottish customs, manners, traditions &c / (Konigsberg : Printed for Brothers Borntraeger, 1826-28), by Robert Motherby (page images at HathiTrust)
Die schottische Liviusübersetzung des John Bellenden (1533) ... (Königsberg i. Pr., Hartungsche Buchdr., 1915), by August Knoch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language; illustrating the words in their different significations, by examples from ancient and modern writers; shewing their affinity to those of other languages, and especially the northern; explaining many terms, which, though now obsolete in England. (Edinburgh, Creech, Constable, and Blackwood, 1808), by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
An etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect : with some derivations of names of places in Shetland / (London and Berlin : Asher, 1866), by Thomas Edmondston and Fiske Icelandic Collection. NIC (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in Lowland Scots / (Edinburgh : William Green and Sons, 1909), by James Colville (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The pronunciation of English in Scotland / (Cambridge : at the University Press, 1914), by William Grant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch. A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian ... (New York, 1900), by George T. Flom (page images at HathiTrust)
Poems and songs, maistly Scotch / (Detroit, Mich. : Published by A. Wanless, 1873), by Andrew Wanless (page images at HathiTrust)
Det norrøne sprog på Shetland. (København : W. Prior, 1897), by Jakob Jakobsen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Chambers Scots dictionary : serving as a glossary for Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Galt, minor poets, kailyard novelists, and a host of other writers of the Scottish tongue / (Edinburgh : W. & R. Chambers, 1911), by Alexander Warrack and William Grant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language, in which the words are explained in their different senses.. (Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1867), by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
Readings in modern Scots from Allan Ramsay to the present day. (London, W. - R. Chambers, 1913), by Alexander Mackie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Examples of printed folk-lore concerning Fife, (London, Pub. for the Folk-lore society by Sidgwick & Jackson, ltd., 1914), by John Ewart Simpkins and David Rorie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Songs and ballads chiefly from Heine. (London, G. Richard, 1920), by Alexander Gray and Heinrich Heine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Observations on the Scottish dialect / (London : Printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell ; Edinburgh : W. Creech, 1782), by John Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
Flexionslehre der ältesten schottischen Urkunden, 1385-1440, (Halle a. S., M. Niemeyer, 1907), by Wilhelm Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A critical inquiry into the Scottish language with the view of illustrating the rise and progress of civilisation in Scotland, (Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1882), by Francisque Michel (page images at HathiTrust)
The dialect of Banffshire; with a glossary of words not in Jamieson's Scottish dictionary. (London, Pub. for the Philological Society by Asher and co, 1866), by Walter Gregor (page images at HathiTrust)
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language, (Paisley, A. Gardner, [1912]), by John Jamieson, William M. Metcalfe, W. M. Metcalfe, and John Johnstone, ed. by John Longmuir (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The dialect of the southern counties of Scotland : its pronunciation, grammar, and historical relations ; with an appendix on the present limits of the Gaelic and lowland Scotch, and the dialectical divisions of the lowland tongue ; and a linguistical map of Scotland / (London : published for the Philogical Society by Asher & Co., 1873), by James Augustus Henry Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
The dialect and place names of Shetland : two popular lectures / (Lerwick : T. & J. Manson, 1897), by Jakob Jakobsen (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of the Scottish language : comprehending all the words in common use in the writings of Scott, Burns, Wilson, Ramsay, and other popular Scottish authors / (London : Simpkin & Marshall, and J. Gilbert, 1845), by Thomas Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
What still remains to be done for the Scottish dialects, ([Oxford, Printed by H. Hart, at the University press], 1909), by William Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
A study in the language of Scottish prose before 1600 ... (Baltimore, J. Murphy & Co., 1893), by William Peters Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
The Bannatyne manuscript / (Glasgow : Printed for the Hunterian Club by Robert Anderson, 1873-1900), by David Laing, Walter Scott, and George Bannatyne, ed. by James Barclay Murdoch and George A. Panton (page images at HathiTrust)
Specimens of Middle Scots : with introduction, notes, and glossary / (Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, 1902), by G. Gregory Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language ... to which is prefixed, A dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language: (Edinburgh, W. Tait, 1840-41), by John Jamieson and John Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité de la langue du poète écossais William Dunber, Précédé d'un choix de ses poésies ... (Bonn, C. Georgi, [1873]), by Johannes Kaufmann (page images at HathiTrust)
Ancient Scottish poems. ([London Reprinted, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; etc., etc., 1815]), by George Bannatyne, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and David Dalrymple (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of the Scottish language : in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and derived from their originals / (Edinburgh : William Tait, 1846), by John Jamieson and John Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
A dictionary of Lowland Scotch, with an introductory chapter on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language and an appendix of Scottish proverbs, (London, Whittaker and co., 1888), by Charles Mackay, G. May, and Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
Wörterbuch des schottischen Dialekts in den Werken von Walter Scott und Burns, (Augsburg, M. Rieger, 1882), by Ludwig Hierthes (page images at HathiTrust)
Legal and other lyrics, (Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1888), by George Outram, Henry Glassford Bell, and J. H. Stoddart, illust. by A. S Boyd and William Ralston (page images at HathiTrust)
Supplement to Jamieson's Scottish dictionary with memoir, and introduction (Paisley, A. Gardner, 1887), by John Jamieson, David Donaldson, and John Longmuir (page images at HathiTrust)
Scotticisms / (London : Hamilton, Adams, & Co., 1881), by Alexander Mackie (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Sprache der ältesten schottischen Urkunden (A.D. 1385-1440) (Berlin, [1897]), by August Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary of Lowland Scotch; with an introductory chapter on the poetry, humour, and literary history of the Scottish language. (Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1968), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The dialect of Robert Burns as spoken in central Ayrshire. ([London] Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1923), by James Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary of Lowland Scotch: (Edinburgh, Priv. print. at the Ballantyne press, 1888), by Charles Mackay, G. May, and Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocket dictionary of the Scottish idiom in which the signification of the words is given in English and German, chiefly calculated to promote the understanding of the works of Sir Walter Scott, Rob. Burns, Allan Ramsay &c., with an appendix containing notes explicative of Scottish customs, manners, traditions &c. (Königsberg, Printed for Brothers Borntraeger, 1826-28), by Robert Motherby (page images at HathiTrust)
Studies in prefixes and suffixes in Middle Scottish / (London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924), by Elisabeth Westergaard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Darstellung der ablautverhältnisse in der schottischen schriftsprache, (Würzburg, Druck von Memminger, 1904), by Paul Knopff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language ... to which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language. (Paisley, A. Gardner, 1879-82), by John Jamieson and John Longmuir, ed. by David Donaldson (page images at HathiTrust)
Phonetics for Scottish students; the sounds of polite Scottish described and compared with those of polite English. (Glasgow, J. Maclehose, 1909), by Irene F. Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
A dictionary of the older Scottish tongue, from the twelfth century to the end of the seventeenth, (Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press, [1937-), by William A. Craigie and A. J. Aitken (page images at HathiTrust)
Lowland Scotch as spoken in the lower Strathearn district of Perthshire. (London, New York, Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1915), by James Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The dialects of central Scotland, (London, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1926), by James Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Gaelic etymology of the languages of western Europe and more especially of the English and Lowland Scotch, and of their slang, cant, and colloquial dialects. (London, Pub. for the author by N. Trübner and co., 1877), by Charles Mackay (page images at HathiTrust)
Specimens of Middle Scots, (Edinburgh, London, W. Blackwood and sons, 1902), by G. Gregory Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
A etymological dictionary of the Scottish language ... Supplement. (Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press for W. & C. Tait, 1825), by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language. To which is prefixed, a dissertation on the origin of the Scottish language: (Paisley : A. Gardner, 1879-82), by John Jamieson, David Donaldson, and John Longmuir (page images at HathiTrust)
Millar's second edition of Hardyknute : an old heroic Scottish ballad. ([Paisley] : J. Neilson, printer, [1810]), by Elizabeth Wardlaw, Andrew Young, John Neilson, and John Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
Hardyknute : a heroic Scottish ballad. ([Paisley] : J. Neilson, printer, [1810]), by John Neilson and Elizabeth Wardlaw (page images at HathiTrust)
An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language, illustrating the words in their different significations by examples from ancient and modern writers; (Edinburgh, Printed at the University Press for W. Creech, 1808), by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
Lowland Scots pronunciation / (Glasgow : Paterson Sons & Co., c1922), by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Scottish tongue : a series of lectures on the vernacular language of Lowland Scotland delivered to the members of the Vernacular circle of the Burns club of London / (London, New York [etc.] : Cassell & company, ltd., 1924), by William A. Craigie, John Malcolm Bulloch, Peter Giles, John Buchan, and London Robert Burns club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
More songs of Angus and others, (London, Pub. at the offices of "Country life" [etc.]; New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1918), by Violet Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
Speech training for Scottish students, (Cambridge, The University press, 1925), by William Grant and Elizabeth Hunter Auld Robson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The pronunciation of English in Scotland, (Cambridge [Eng.] The University press, 1913), by William Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
Entwicklung von me.o in den heutigen schottischen mundarten ... (Wiener, Neustadt, 1912), by Josef Mařik (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Scottish selections from the Waverley novels, with explanatory lists of Scottish words for use in schools, (London, Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1916), by Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Manual of modern Scots, (Cambridge, The University Press, 1921), by William Grant and James Main Dixon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The Bannatyne manuscript. ([Glasgow] : Printed for the Hunterian club, 1896), by George Bannatyne, David Laing, Walter Scott, James Barclay Murdoch, and George A. Panton (page images at HathiTrust)
Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch; a contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian. (New York, AMS Press, 1966 [c1900]), by George T. Flom (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish language, in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and derived from their originals. (Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, 1867), by John Jamieson, John Longmuir, and John Johnstone (page images at HathiTrust)
The Roxburghshire word-book, being a record of the special vernacular vocabulary of the county of Roxburgh, with an appendix of specimens, (Cambridge [Eng.] : The University Press, 1923), by George Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch: A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian, by George T. Flom (Gutenberg ebook)

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