Doric

Author: J. Derrick McClure
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027297177
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and social context, discusses in some detail a selection of previous accounts of its distinctive characteristics of phonology and grammar, showing that its shibboleths have been well recognised, and have remained consistent, over a long period. Passages of recorded speech are then examined, with extensive use of phonetic transcription. Finally, a representative selection of written texts, dating from the eighteenth century to the present and illustrating a wide variety of styles and genres, are presented with detailed annotations. A full glossary is also included. This study clearly demonstrates both the individuality of the dialect and the richness of the local culture of which it is an integral part.

Northern and Insular Scots

Author: Robert McColl Millar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748629963
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages. How well have these varieties maintained their traditional natures at the start of the 21st century?

Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen

Author: Frederick J. Barclay
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780470030257
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
Fuel cell technology is the most exciting and legitimate alternative source of power currently available to us as world resources of non-renewable fuel continue to be depleted. No other power generating technology holds the same benefits that fuel cells offer, including high reliability and efficiency, negligible environmental impact, and security of supply. Fuel cells run on hydrogen – the simplest and most plentiful gas in the universe - although they can also run on carbon monoxide, methane, or even coal. Their applications are diverse, from powering automobiles, buildings and portable electronics, to converting methane gas from wastewater plants and landfills into electricity. Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen is a controversial text that challenges the accepted industry parameters for measuring fuel cell performance and efficiency. Based on his inter-disciplinary experience in the fields of power, nuclear power, and desalination, the author contends that the development potential of the fuel cell is related to the quantity fuel chemical exergy, which, like electrical potential, is a quantitative measure of work done. The fuel cell community currently characterises these devices in terms of the enthalpy of combustion (calorific value) – however the author argues a correct, qualitatively different and fourfold larger characterisation is via the fuel chemical exergy, in units of work, and not energy. He asserts that the distortion introduced by this accepted perspective needs to be corrected before relatively efficient fuel cells, integrated with comparatively low performing gas turbines, reach the market. Fuel Cells, Engines and Hydrogen features a foreword by Dr Gerry Agnew, Executive VP Engineering of Rolls Royce Fuel Cells Systems Ltd. It is essential reading for all engineers involved with fuel cells and/ or the manufacture of hydrogen from natural gas, as well as academics in related disciplines such as thermodynamics, physical chemistry, materials, physics, mechanical and chemical engineering.

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

Author: Robert McColl Millar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748691782
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
This book considersvarious theoretical and methodological issues in relation to a representative sample of fishing communities along ScotlandOCOs east coast. Can the lexical variation and change found in these communities be perceived as primary evidenc"e;

A Doric Dictionary

Author: Douglas Kynoch
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 191238776X
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
What's the difference between a meggie-monyfeet and a hornie-gollach? Between snap-an-rattle and murly-tuck? All is explained in the Doric Dictionary. It is a two-way lexicon of words and phrases drawn from the former Banffshire in the North through Aberdeenshire to the Mearns and North Angus and drawn from the published works of most the North-east's best-known writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. As the writer says in his foreword, 'There is not one monolithic form of Doric but a multliplicity of forms; and words can change not only from county to county but from village to village'. The Dictionary contains no fewer than eight variants of the term for a seagull. This new version (2018) is enhanced by a most stimulating injection of Buchan vocabulary drawn from W. P. Milne's historical novel, Eppie Elrick.

The Southeastern Reporter

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1270

Book Description

John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity

Author: Kate Macdonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Considered a quintessentially 'popular' author, John Buchan was a writer of fiction, journalism, philosophy and Scottish history. By examining his engagement with empire, psychoanalysis and propaganda, the contributors to this volume place Buchan at the centre of the debate between popular culture and the modernist elite.

Modern Scots

Author: Robert McColl Millar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474416888
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Your user-friendly study and revision guide to Scots criminal law, written specially for students by a law lecturer with over 20 years of teaching experience.

Buchan Claik

Author: Peter Buchan
Publisher: Gordon Wright Publishing
ISBN: 9780903065948
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 223

Book Description
Although Buchan Claik is presented alphabetically, it is more than a dictionary. It is a hoard of words, sayings, proverbs, rhymes and reminiscences from the North-East of Scotland.

Current Trends in Historical Sociolinguistics

Author: Cinzia Russi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311048840X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
The volume collects original studies highlighting contemporary trends in historical sociolinguistics, as well as current research on the relationship between sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, social motivations of language variation and change, and corpus-based studies. Distinctive features of the book, which make it appealing to a wider audience, are the interdisciplinary nature of the chapters and the range of languages addressed.