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	Scots on the Wab - Historie o Scots in Scots
		Houanivver the diglossia wis bi noo warkin weel an thair subjecks wis maistlie the couthie an the humourous.
		The former thoucht (richt) the Scots wis wattered doun fur the Inglish mercat, and the hinner cudna unnerstaun it oniegate.
		We hae ainlie tae fin the wull an the smeddum.
	members.aol.com /minoritas/scotslan.htm (2358 words)

	Pirate copy of Clive Young's guide to Scots
		Scots, and Scots children in particular, have laboured too long under the impression that the language of their family and friends is somehow 'wrong'.
		Houanivver the diglossia wis bi nou warkin weil an thair subjecks wis maistlie the couthie an the humoursum.
		The former thoucht (richt) the Scots wis wattered doun fur the Inglish mairket, and the hinner cudna unnerstaun it oniegate.
	www.geocities.com /cliveyoungscots (9263 words)

	Words Without Borders -> Scots: The Auld an Nobill Tung
		Scots is "ane o the wee leids o Europe, ane o the leids o Scotlan, alang wi Gaelic an Suddron." Linguists consider it an autonomous West Germanic language, with its own dialects—Glesca, Aberdonian, Doric, Shetlandic, Orcadian, Black-Isle—and its own standard literary language, Lallans (Lowlands).
		In the Scotland of the late 1200s and the early 1300s, Norman French was the language of literature and polite conversation, Scotis (the ancestor of Scots) was the urban language of trade, and Gaelic the language of the highland clans in the north.
		Scots became the language of the royal court and of literature.
	www.wordswithoutborders.org /article.php?lab=ScotsEssay (1761 words)

	Wir Ain Leid - Ulster Scots
		Scots settled in the northern half of the Ards Peninsula spreading at first through Newtonards and Comber and then across the northern half of Down.
		Scots also settled from Island Magee to Glenarm and in the west as far as Antrim town and in the North at Ballymoney.
		Ulster Scots is on the whole a variant of West Central Scots.
	www.scots-online.org /grammar/uscots.htm (721 words)

	normblog: Writer's choice 57: Livi Michael
		Scots became the language of domestic life and agriculture, used in literature for sentimental or comic effect.
		Lancashire dialect has deteriorated even more irretrievably than Scots, and Greenwood writes his narrative in a grammatically correct Standard English, reserving a kind of creole dialect for his dialogue, in a way which suggests, inevitably, that the oral medium is inferior.
		Each character in The Quair is placed according to their appropriation or rejection of the Scottish language, and in this way the contradictions and divisions of an antagonistic class system are shown to be embedded within the structures of language itself.
	normblog.typepad.com /normblog/2006/07/writers_choice_.html (1354 words)

	Scots Books.
		Mary Queen of Scots (Women in History S.) Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen.
		The relationship between Queen Elizabeth I of England and her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, is one of the most complex, tempestuous and fascinating in history.
		Bairn Rhymes: Scots Verse for Children J. Annand''s three books of Scots verse for children - Sing it Aince for Pleasure, Twice for Joy and Thrice to Show Ye - are published together in this collection of bairn rhymes.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /scots-books.htm (734 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Books From Scotland
		His masterpiece trilogy, A Scots Quair, is familiar to most people in Scotland while Sunset Song was voted the Top Scottish book in a recent poll.
		His works are now gradually being republished in their entirety and with copyright lapsing on The Scots Quair, there should be a flurry of new editions in the next year or so.
		Each novel relates a chapter in the life of Chris Guthrie, torn between her love of the land and her desire to escape the narrow confines of a peasant culture.
	www.booksfromscotland.com /Authors/Lewis-Grassic-Gibbon (267 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Books - In the chill light of dawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Not for Grassic Gibbon the experiments in difficult Scots his friend Hugh MacDiarmid rejoiced in, challenging his readers to work with him, to extend their Scots vocabulary, to go to the dictionaries if necessary to keep up with Scottish literature.
		For Grassic Gibbon, to mould the rhythms and cadences of English to Scots spoken speech was enough, and this explains much of the popularity of Sunset Song abroad as well as in its native country.
		A Scots Quair is about the real Scotland: we can pay it no higher compliment.
	living.scotsman.com /books.cfm?id=713922006 (987 words)

	Modernism and Marxism in "A Scots Quair"
		Whether his technique is adequate to compass and express the life of an industrialized Scots town in all its complexity is yet to be demonstrated.
		And what is so interesting about A Scots Quair itself is the way in which Gibbon marries a Modernistic fictional form with a Marxist exploration of contemporary and historical forces, an exploration more often conducted in fiction through socialist-realist methodology.
		GG - Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite in A Scots Quair (1995)
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /ScotLit/ASLS/Ideology.html (4458 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Scots Quair, A
		The Mearns trilogy, A Scots Quair, is his most renowned work, and has become a landmark in Scottish literature.
		At each book's core is the heroine Chris Guthrie, as she grows from a child into adulthood through the Great War to the development of communism in the 1920s.
		Grassic Gibbon's writing is unique and riveting, blending Scots and English in an accessible style, and eloquent in its humanity and celebration of nature.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=190459882X (285 words)

	Scottish literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The ethnic language of the Scots was Gaelic.
		From the 15th century much Middle Scots literature was produced by writers based around the royal court in Edinburgh and the University of St Andrews.
		In Scotland, after the 17th century, anglicisation increased, though Lowland Scots was still spoken by the vast majority of the population of the Lowlands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scottish_literature (1860 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		His was a compressed and all too short span, like the growing seasons on the farm, and his writing has a beautiful rolling rhythm which is quickly attractive, sounding like the local dialect yet without the (to a stranger) inscrutable local spelling.
		The family moved slightly south when he was eight; to the Howe of The Mearns, where the Scots Quair would later be set.
		In 1917, when he was sixteen, he began work as a journalist in Aberdeen, followed two years later with a spell on the Scottish Farmer in Glasgow.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=127 (395 words)

	The Scotsman - Wind farm threat to scene of a Scots literary classic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A SCENIC view made famous in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s trilogy A Scots Quair will be irretrievably damaged by a proposed new wind farm, the writer’s daughter claimed yesterday.
		The 14 sq km site, about 25 miles south of Aberdeen, is within a few hundred yards of Bloomfield, the deceased writer’s former home, which featured heavily in his works.
		Scots chefs praised by Egon Ronay; and the PM who doesn't care for justice
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=229272005 (770 words)

	THEATRE REVIEWS
		TG: A Scots Quair is taught in schools but I also have a personal fascination with the author, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, who is a very important 20th century artist.
		A Scots Quair is a panoramic view of what was happening in Scotland, but it is also an intensely personal account of an individual who is born into farm life, who tries to transcend it and can't, and of her son who goes off to join the Communist Party.
		These ultimately prove to be the two polar forces in A Scots Quair which leaves unresolved the question about what happens to Scotland in the 1930s, where it fails to achieve the Communist ambitions of Red Clydeside yet has no economic future.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr188/theatre.htm (1477 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Wikipedia
		Born an brocht up in Aiberdeenshire, he stairtit wirkin as a jurnalist fur the Aberdeen Journal an the Scottish Farmer at the age o 16.
		Altho no recogneised in the author's lifetime, his trilogy A Scots Quair, an in parteicular its first beuk Sunset Song is conseidert tae be amang the definin warks o the 20t century Scots Renaissance.
		The leid he wrate in wis Inglis; the dialogue o his characters is meant tae be read as Scots, but is written in an Inglish-like kin o wey for tae mak readin mair eith for Inglish readers.
	sco.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon (272 words)

	MaKuro Papers -- A Scots Quair
		In this development she reflects and responds to the various changes in the world around her, such as the collapse of the pre-war village community, the progressing industrialisation, the changes in the world politics or the increasing feeling of insecurity among the urban population, a feeling caused by the Depression and rising unemployment.
		But Chris, now as far detached from her roots as she may be, manages to escape the world of granite and steel and returns to her last resort, Cairndhu, where she was born and will die as well.
		The period of time described in A Scots Quair is also a period of great social changes, and so there is a radical change in the community around Chris, too.
	makuro.mak-sima.com /teksty/chris.htm (3879 words)

	Wir Ain Leid - Southern Scots
		Southern Scots or Border Scots as it is also known - apart for a stretch of land between Carlisle an Gretna where the Cumbrian and Scots dialect mix - is substantially different from the dialects of English spoken south of the Border.
		Beat Glauser's research into the dialects on both sides of the border pointed out that the linguistic and political borders were practically identical.
		This is subject to the Scots Vowel Length Rule.
	www.scots-online.org /grammar/sscots.htm (489 words)

	Scotland: Scots Dictionary - Q
		The word is most often found in the titles of literary works such as The Kingis Quair (c.
		A queenie is a type of shelfish (a queen scallop) fished for from harbours in the Southwest.
		The word is a local form of the older Scots cuit, which comes from the Middle Dutch cote an ankle.
	www.britannia.org /scotland/scotsdictionary/q.shtml (284 words)

	Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Used, New, & Out-of-Print - Alibris
		Scots Quair by Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Used, New, and Out-of-Print - Alibris
		Trade paperback, light wear on cover, pages 48-96 are somewhat wavy (appears to have been near water) but does not affect text at all, tight, clean and unmarked, good condition.
		One of the all-time greats of Scottish literature, truly revolutionary, A Scots Quair is a trilogy of novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934).
	www.alibris.com /search/books/qwork/5940659/used/ScotsQuair (445 words)

	Paul Foot: Poet of the Granite City (2001)
		In between all these novels there is a mountain of journalism and travel writing that defies belief, even though Grassic Gibbon revealed that he consistently wrote on average 4,000 words a day (you try it).
		The trilogy, A Scots Quair (nothing queer about it, by the way, it is derived from the word quire – a literary work of any length), is by far the best of Grassic Gibbon’s novels.
		The other novels are written mainly in plain English while the trilogy is in the vernacular, the Scottish language as perfected by the common people of Aberdeenshire.
	www.marxists.org /archive/foot-paul/2001/12/gibbon.htm (1921 words)

	Famous Scots from Rampant Scotland Directory
		Of course, some of the Scots listed below are only famous in Scotland but equally you will be surprised by some of the people who have given their names to inventions, parts of the world - and made a contribution to many countries around the globe.
		This site has an ever growing section of biographies of many of the Scots who have had an influence on the world - from saints in the 6th century to Billy Connolly in the 20th.
		There is also a separate section on Scots Women in History and Scots Pioneers in Medicine plus Scotland's prominent individuals of today.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famousscots.htm (3878 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He wrote numerous books and shorter works under both his real name and nom de plume before his early death in 1935 of peritonitis brought on by a perforated ulcer.
		Although not recognised during the author's lifetime, his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, is considered to be among the defining works of 20th century Scottish Renaissance.
		Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg This article about a UK writer or poet is a stub.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon (279 words)

	Search Results for lewis grassic gibbon a scots quair - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A SCOT'S QUAIR A TRILOGY by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		A SCOTS QUAIR, A Trilogy of Novels by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
		A mania for self-reliance: Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair by Angus Calder
	www.directtextbook.com /editions/lewis-grassic-gibbon-a-scots-quair (301 words)

	Amazon.com: A Scots Quair: Sunset Song, Cloud Howe, and Grey Granite: Books: Lewis G Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell) was one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.
		beyond this, gibbon's lyricism is a wonder to behold; he can manipulate language in ways that may bring a tear to your eye (and the story, mournful as it is, just may add to it)."Scottish Quaire" is a work that many have never heard of, and that is unfortunate.
		For Americans of Scottish descent, "A Scots Quair" (a trilogy) will teach you how Scots in Kindardineshire spoke, what life was like, how the air might have felt against your cheek.
	www.amazon.com /Scots-Quair-Sunset-Cloud-Granite/dp/0947782672 (1063 words)

	ScotSpeak ©1998-2006 by LehuaNet
		A small, furry, endearing animal that has one pair of legs shorter than the other, adapting them for life on hillsides; the murderous Scots frighten them, thus causing them to fall over and roll down the hill where the women hold out their aprons and catch them.
		This appears to confirm what I had already suspected: The Scots are less than warm-and-fuzzy about their neighbors and about bureaucracy (often one and the same), and experience joyful identity-ness at the thwarting of either.
		Here is what the experts tell me: Scots are British, though not all British are Scots, and Scots are most emphatically not English.
	www.lehuanet.com /ScotSpeak (5184 words)

	(GCV7B4) A SCOTS QUAIR, SUNSET SONG by Team Lournie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon is the celebrated pen-name of James Leslie Mitchell, one of the outstanding figures in Scottish Literature, world famous as the author of the trilogy of novels known as A Scots Quair.
		Born on 13 February 1901, Leslie Mitchell's background and upbringing were steeped in the traditional crofting life of the north-east of Scotland; as an adult, Mitchell looked back proudly on his peasant roots.
		Sunset Song was the final one of the Scots Quair series to be done.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.asp?wp=GCV7B4 (1133 words)

	Scots Language Resource Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Lewis Grassic Gibbon (1901 - 1935) is one of the best known of early twentieth-century Scottish writers.
		Born James Leslie Mitchell, he grew up in the Mearns area of north-east Scotland, a landscape and farming life he recreated vividly in Sunset Song, the first book of his Scots Quair trilogy, published in 1932.
		This new collection of essays celebrates Gibbon's achievement in his own time while emphasising his continuing relevance today - particularly the strong depiction of women in his fiction and his innovative narrative style which anticipates the work of writers such as Kelman and Welsh.
	scotsyett.com /biography.htm (175 words)

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	www.loanspage.co.uk /book/0862415322 (314 words)

	Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grassic Gibbon Centre was established in Arbuthnott in 1991 to commemorate the author's life.
		Sunset Song (1932), the first book of the trilogy A Scots Quair
		These were collected posthumously in A Scots Hairst (1969).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon (297 words)

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