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Lowland and Scots
The word broch is derived from Lowland Scots ' brough ', meaning ( among other things ) fort.
** A Lowland Scots tradition strongly influenced by baroque violin technique with staccato and Scotch snap bowing techniques in addition to the use of double stops.
The term " Hun " is also used by Catholics in Northern Ireland as a derogatory term to refer to Northern Irish Protestants, most of whom are descended from English and Lowland Scottish settlers, who historically spoke English and Scots respectively ; both Germanic languages.
Old Norse also had an influence on English dialects and Lowland Scots, which contains many Old Norse loanwords.
* Scots language, a language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster
Consequently, some Lowland Scots words have a z in place of a yogh.
The term " Doric " was used to refer to all dialects of Lowland Scots but during the twentieth century it became increasingly associated with Mid Northern Scots.
Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster ( where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots ).
It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides.
In Lowland Scots, cuddie usually refers to a donkey or ass but may also denote a short, thick, strong horse.
The first recorded example in English is in 1449, Lowland Scots, denoting an itinerant musician, usually with a contemptuous connotation.
Related words include the Gaelic caileag (' young woman ', ' girl ') and the Lowland Scots carline / carlin (' old woman ', ' witch ').
Firth is the word in the Lowland Scots language and in English used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland and England.
This was intended as a classical, standard Scots for a world-class literature, although it was more often than not Scots words grafted on to a standard English grammatical structure somewhat removed from traditional spoken Scots, its main practitioners not being habitual Lowland Scots speakers themselves.
This is a situation like that of Lowland Scots and Scottish Standard English – where lexical items have been re-allocated to the phoneme classes that are nearest to the equivalent standard classes.
" And " Ulster Scots is one dialect of Lowland Scots, now officially regarded as a language by the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages.
Lowland Scots can refer to:
At the time, social upheaval in Scotland due to the introduction of sheep farming and the ensuing Highland and Lowland Clearances had left a number of Scots destitute.

Lowland and like
As writers such as George Douglas Brown railed against the " Kailyard school " that had come to dominate Scottish letters, producing satiric, realist accounts of Scottish rural life in novels like The House with the Green Shutters ( 1901 ), Scots language poets such as Violet Jacob and Marion Angus undertook a quiet revival of regionally inflected poetry in the Lowland vernacular.
However, all the refugees who entered the castle were taken prisoner by its formerly pro-English governor Walter fitz Gilbert who, like many Lowland knights, declared for Bruce as soon as word came of the Scottish King's victory.
Helen Cruickshank's best known poem is probably Shy Geordie which, like much of her work, is in Lowland Scots and draws on her Angus country heritage ( the poem has been set to music by several people, including Buxton Orr and Jim Reid ).

Lowland and Scottish
2000 The History of a Scottish Lowland Crannog: excavations at Buiston AOC / STAR Monograph 4, Edinburgh
The ancient Lowland Scottish Clan Swinton is said to have to have acquired the name Swinton for their bravery and clearing their area of wild boar.
* Scottish Cant, a language of the Scottish Lowland Travellers
* The Scottish Agricultural Revolution ( 18th – 19th centuries ), the British Agricultural Revolution in Scotland specifically, which led to the Lowland Clearances
Scottish Natural Heritage nature reserve which comprises a Lowland Raised Peat Bog, a UK BAP priority habitat.
It is the principal route from Lowland Scotland to the western Scottish Highlands, running from Glasgow to Inverness, going by Loch Lomond, Glen Coe and Fort William.
The dominant position that Lowland Scots had in the town has today been taken by the English language, in the form of the Scottish English dialect.
* Anzac Mounted Division to press forward with its right on the Hod el Enna and its left in close touch with the infantry from the 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade, 52nd ( Lowland ) Division, advancing on the line Katib Gannit to Mount Meredith.
At daybreak, infantry in the 8th Scottish Rifles, 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade, 52nd ( Lowland ) Division ) advanced with the 7th Light Horse and the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiments ( 2nd Light Horse Brigade ), covered by infantry in the 7th Scottish Rifles, 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade, 52nd ( Lowland ) Division on the left, who had brought 16 machine guns and Lewis guns into a position from which they could sweep the crest and reverse slopes of Wellington Ridge.
In 1950, the 51st / 52nd ( Scottish ) Division was split, restoring the independence of the 52nd Lowland Division, which took regional command of Territorial Army units based in the Scottish Lowlands, including the TA infantry battalions of the Lowland Brigade regiments.

Lowland and Gaelic
From 1495 the term Scottis was increasingly used to refer to the Lowland vernacular and Erse, meaning Irish, as a name for Gaelic.
For example, towards the end of the 15th century William Dunbar was using Erse to refer to Gaelic and in the early 16th century Gavin Douglas was using Scottis as a name for the Lowland vernacular.
Throughout his reign, Robert spent long periods in his Gaelic heartlands and complaints at the time in Lowland Scotland seem to have been influenced by the view that the king was too much involved in Gaelic concerns.
Galwegian Gaelic seems to have lasted longer than Gaelic in other parts of Lowland Scotland, and Margaret McMurray ( d. 1760 ) of Carrick ( outside modern Galloway ) appears to be the last recorded speaker.
It carries articles in Lowland Scots and Scottish Gaelic.
Teuchter ( pronounced or ) is a Lowland Scots word originally used to describe a Scottish Highlander, ( in particular a Gaelic speaking Highlander.
This view is still held by many today, and they have no single name in the Scottish Gaelic language or Doric dialect of the Lowland Scots.
Lowland Scots speakers in their turn have variously described the island as " Mewla " or " Miuley " ( which are both approximations of the Gaelic pronunciation ), " Megaly " and " Micklay " before finally settling on the current variant.
* Dgèrnésiais is recognised ( along with Jèrriais, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Manx and Lowland Scots ( in Scotland and Northern Ireland )) as a regional language by the British and Irish governments within the framework of the British-Irish Council.
George Campbell Hay ( 1915-1984 ) was a Scottish poet and translator, who wrote in Scottish Gaelic, Lowland Scots and English.
The construction is quite frequent in Scottish Gaelic, more than in English, but this sometimes carries over into Highland English, Lowland Scots and Scottish English.
In Scotland during the 18th century, the surname was used as a Lowland adaptation of the Scottish Gaelic Maceachrain.
* Ceàrr ( Scottish Gaelic for " left-handed " – carrie handit in Lowland Scots )
The opposite course was known in Scotland as widdershins ( Lowland Scots ), or tuathal ( Scottish Gaelic, lit.
He tried to do this through his poetry, and used his own reworking of old Scots or " Lallans " ( Lowland Scots ) in the tradition of Robert Burns instead of Scots Gaelic or standard English.
He is also remembered for his Gaelic Etymology Of The Languages Of Western Europe and the later Dictionary of Lowland Scotch in which he presented his " fanciful conjectures " that " thousands of English words go back to Scottish Gaelic ".
* Machair-A Gaelic word referring to a grassy coastal plain, with typical flora, usually in the Outer Hebrides (' Links ' in Lowland Scotland ).
* feelings of low self-worth and embarrassment felt by Scottish people in response to overt expressions of Scottish cultural identity and heritage such as the Lowland Scots and Scottish Gaelic languages, and the kilt ( see Tartanry )
When the Gaelic Highlanders broke away from the Lowland monarchy in the 14th century, the MacLeans allied with the Highlanders-receiving lands from John, Lord of the Isles, in exchange for their support.

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