A round-up of recent news items relating to lexicography in Scotland:
- Professor Charlotte Brewer has been awarded funding to create a pilot edition of the Murray Papers
(8 December 2020) -
Baffie to Weegie: 18 Scottish words that are now in the dictionary (Scotsman, 18 Sept 2019)
- Peter Pan Scots author’s thesaurus sells for over £4000 at auction (Sunday Post, 29 March 2019)
- New Gaelic dictionary launched to preserve the language (Herald, 24 April 2018)
- Obituary – Christian Kay, Glasgow professor who created the world’s largest thesaurus (Herald, 21 June 2016)
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Whiteout: new Scottish thesaurus has 421 words for snow (Guardian, 23 Sept 2015)
- Britannica writes off its print encyclopaedia (Herald, 15 March 2012)
- Boswell’s Scottish dictionary discovered in Oxford after 200 years (Times, 2 May 2011)
- Scotland mourns loss of Chambers Harrap (Bookseller, 16 Sept 2009)
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