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OXFORD, England, May 1 (UPI) -- A handwritten dictionary of Scottish words and phrases compiled by James Boswell, the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson, has turned up at Oxford University. The Bodleian ...

A series of Scottish words have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in its latest update. More than 10 new Scottish entries have been recorded in the newest version of the dictionary. On ...

Nine new words will appear in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language, a 4,000 page digital publication, after meeting the threshold to be listed. Dictionary chiefs confirmed they made the cut after ...

No-one wants to hear the sound of a splorroch but a huam is another matter, at least if you had lived in Scotland 100 years ago or more. Long forgotten words to describe the countryside have been ...

The Scottish government has given £2m funding for an online Gaelic dictionary that could take 30 years to complete. Work has already begun collecting source material for a digital archive containing ...

Before the meteoric rise in printing technology, most European nations were a hodgepodge of dialects and linguistic variations. More of a flowing fabric of interwoven words across the continent, than ...

A total beamer - a football fan deals with Scotland's elimination from a tournament The Oxford English Dictionary is hoaching with new Scottish words - with beamer, bummer and tattie scone among 13 ...

A number of Scots are among the men and women who died in 2009 who have been added to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Among the 225 new biographies added, more than 20 have close personal ...