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Dictionary of the Scots Language
Free online version of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and the Scottish National Dictionary with their various supplements. Users can browse headwords or search entries by keyword. Users are advised to read the directions for searching on the main page. Frames-based.
Gaelic, Scots: A Language of the United Kingdom (from Ethnologue)
Entry from an online reference guide to world languages.
Gateway to Scottish Authors
An online version of the Scottish Library Association's publication "Discovering Scottish Writers" with biographical information and a timeline for 79 prominent authors from Scotland.
Scots: A Language of the United Kingdom (from Ethnologue)
Entry from an online reference guide to world languages.
Scottish Book Trust
Promotes writers, reading, and publishing with links to literary events, contests, a writers' database, and the "100 Best Scottish Books."
The Write Stuff
Based on an exhibition held at the National Library of Scotland in 2001 featuring leading Scottish writers. Brief biographical information and photographs by Edinburgh publisher and photographer Gordon Wright.

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