Heed yer Leid!* - launch of Scottish Language Dictionaries
26/04/2002
The Scottish Arts Council funding is helping launch Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD), a new organisation for the Scots language which will offer an accurate guide to Scots from earliest times right up to the 21st century. The launch takes place on Wednesday 1 May.
SLD will combine the research and expertise of two former projects, the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish National Dictionary Association, and allow the maintenance of a continuing word collection of modern written and spoken Scots.
The definitive Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which deals with Scots from its mediaeval origins until 1707, was completed this year to great acclaim. The Scottish National Dictionary Association, which took the Scots language up to the present, produced a comprehensive series of Scots language publications including, in 1985, the highly successful Concise Scots Dictionary, soon to appear in a new edition.
Scottish Language Dictionaries has been awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a new supplement to the Scottish National Dictionary. An Arts and Humanities Research Board grant will allow the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish National Dictionary to be digitised at the University of Dundee to form the electronic Dictionary of the Scots Language so people worldwide can access the Scots language from earliest times and see how it is evolving right up to the present day.
Notes to editors
- The Scottish Arts Council champions and sustains the arts for Scotland, investing £56 million from Scottish Executive and National Lottery funding to support and develop artistic excellence and creativity throughout Scotland. Further information on funding from the Scottish Arts Council is available at www.scottisharts.org.uk.
- The Scottish Arts Council is supporting Scottish Language Dictionaries through a £27,500 grant for establishment costs, and core funding for 2002/03 of £80,000.
- *‘Heed yer leid’ is Scots for ‘mind your tongue’.
- Further information about Scottish Language Dictionaries is on www.scotsdictionaries.org.uk.
Contact email(s)
media.office@scottisharts.org.uk
Issued by: Scottish Arts Council
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