Middle Scots

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Middle Scots

  1. The Anglic language of Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700.
    • 1970, Alexander Manson Kinghorn, editor, The Middle Scots Poets, Northwestern University Press, page 45:
      Middle Scots is a development of the so-called ‘Anglian’ dialect of Old English, which divided into Midland and Northumbrian during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and eventually became the Northern 

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