Say it in Scots: Scottish Wildlife


Dr Chris Robinson

Category Language
Pub Date April 2008
ISBN 1845021959
Extent 128pp
Price £4.99
Format Pbk, 145x110 mm
Plate/IllustrationsB & W illustrations

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Say It in Scots is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots.

Scotland is a country full of beasties, and for every bird, animal and insect that you see as you travel through towns, farmland, mountains, glens, rivers, lochs and sea, the Scots language will provide a Scots word.

In Scottish Wildlife, Dr Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries will introduce you to Big Beasties, Wee Beasties, Creepy-Crawlies and our Feathered Friends and will inform and entertain as she explains how they got their names, where to find them and how to recognise them.

So welcome to the world of the coos, yowes, horney gollachs, blethering Tams and many, many more.

Author information

Dr Chris Robinson is the director of Scottish Language Dictionaries. She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Edinburgh and has taught Scots and English since the 1980s. She currently lectures for the University of the Highlands and Islands.