Author : Charles Mackay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780364207635
Excerpt from The Poetry and Humour: Of the Scottish Language The nucleus of this volume was contributed in three papers to Blackwood's Magazine, at the end of the year 1869 and beginning of 1870. They are here reprinted, by the kind permission of Messrs. Blackwood, 83 with many corrections and great extensions, amounting to more than two-thirds of the volume. The original intention of the work was to present to the admirers 0 Scottish literature, where it differs from that of England, only such words as were more poetical and humorous in the Scottish language than in the English, or were altogether wanting in the latter. The design gradually eirtended itself as the compiler proceeded with his task, i it came to include large numbers of words derived SE from the Gaelic or Keltic, with which Dr. Jamieson, the 5 author of the best and most copious Scottish Dictionary Nhitherto published, was very imperfectly or scarcely at all acquainted, and which he very Often wofully or ludi crously misunderstood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.