Unlocking the History of English

It is currently unclear to what extent Older Scots features continued in correspondence during the early eighteenth century (Millar 2020: 100). To explore this, the digitised letters of politically-involved Scottish writers active during this time were compiled into a purpose-built corpus, and searched for the Scots feature <quh‑>. The focus was on three authors in particular who were selected for close-up analysis. Their correspondence was quantitatively analysed to determine the frequenc