Book review
Jamieson’s Dictionary of Scots: The story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language. By Susan Rennie.
Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xvi, 282 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-963940-3 ₤ 70.00

Reviewed by John Considine
University of Alberta, Edmonton
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