References

1. Aitken, A. J. (1979) "Scottish speech: a historical view with special reference to the Standard English of Scotland" in A. J. Aitken and Tom McArthur eds. Languages of Scotland, Edinburgh: Chambers, 85-118.

2. Murison, David) The Guid Scots Tongue, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, pp. 53-54

3. Primary education: a report of the Advisory Council on Education in Scotland, Scottish Education Deptartment 1946, p. 75

4. Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2008-04-21. "An idiom or mode of expression characteristic of Scots; esp. as used by a writer of English."

5. Stuart-Smith J. Scottish English: Phonology in Varieties of English: The British Isles, Kortman & Upton (Eds), Mouton de Gruyter, New York 2008. p.48

6. [http://www.bl.uk/soundsfamiliar Sounds Familiar?]- Listen to examples of Scottish English and other regional accents and dialects of the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website

7.[http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/ Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech] - Multimedia corpus of Scots and Scottish English