Spelling Scots

Jennifer Bann worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, on the AHRC-funded Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing and Correspondence of Dr William Cullen projects. John Corbett is Professor of English at the University of Macau and a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Language and Scottish Literature (1997) and he co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (2003).

This book makes an original and distinctive contribution to scholarship in a number of areas as well as containing material that will be of interest to any well-informed reader, providing an important addition to the relatively small field of the history of Scots orthography.

• Acknowledgements; The IPA Chart; 1: Introduction; 2: The Consonants of Older Scots; 3: Older Scots Vowels; 4: The Development of Modern Scots Orthography; 5: From Orthoepy to Activism: Orthographic Interventions; 6: Cluster Analysis and Scots Orthography; 7: Applying Cluster Analysis to Scots Poetry; 8: Applying Cluster Analysis to Scots Prose; 9: Promoting Literacy in Scots; References; Appendix: Word lists used in cluster analyses