Native speakers sometimes refer to their vernacular as braid Scots (or "broad Scots" in English) or use a dialect name such as the "Doric" or the "Buchan Claik". The old-fashioned Scotch, an English loan, occurs occasionally, especially in

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Northumbrian Old English had been established in what is now southeastern Scotland as far as the River Forthby the seventh century, as the

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During the 2010s, increased interest was expressed in the language.
Education
The status of the language was raised in Scottish schools, with

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In Scotland, Scots is spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles, Caithness, Arran and Campbeltown. In Ulster, the northern province in Ireland, its area is usually defined through

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The orthography of Early Scots had become more or less standardised by the middle to late sixteenth century. After the Union of the Crownsin

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Modern Scots follows the subject–verb–object sentence structure like Standard English. However, the word order Gie's it (Give us it)

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Among the earliest Scots literature is John Barbour's Brus (fourteenth century), Wyntoun's Cronykil and Blind Harry's The Wallace (fifteenth century). From the fifteenth century, much literature based on the Royal Court in Edinburgh and the University of St Andrewswas

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