The
Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) (Scots:
Dictionar o the Scots Leid)
is an online Scots-English dictionary, now run by Scottish
Language Dictionaries Ltd, a charity and limited company. The
dictionary is freely available on the internet and comprises the
two major dictionaries of the Scots language:
- the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
(DOST)
- the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND)
DOST contains information about Older Scots words in use from
the 12th to the end of the 17th centuries (Early and Middle
Scots); and SND contains information about Scots words in use
from 1700 to the 1970s (modern Scots). Together these 22 volumes
provide a comprehensive history of Scots. The SND Bibliography
and the DOST Register of Titles have also been digitised and can
be searched in the same way as the main data files. A new
supplement, compiled by Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd, was
added in 2005.
The digitisation project, which ran from February 2001 to
January 2004, was based at the University of Dundee, with some
financial additional support from the Scottish Executive, the
Arts and Humanities Research Board, Scottish Language
Dictionaries Ltd, the Russell Trust, and the Carnegie Trust for
the Universities of Scotland. The project was directed by Victor
Skretkowicz and edited by Susan Rennie.
See also
- Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd
- Scottish National Dictionary
- Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue
External links
- Dictionary of the Scots Language
- Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd
- (PDF file) Inventory of the Scottish National Dictionary
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