Spelling Scots

Analyses the development of Modern Scots orthography and compares the spelling used in key works of literature People have been writing in Scots for over 700 years, but the spelling of Scots has never been fixed, with many words, like buik, buke, book , appearing in a variety of forms. Drawing on the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, this volume provides a comprehensive survey of the spelling system of Older and Modern Scots, illustrating how this orthographic system has developed partly in res