Further research

Read Ian Tait’s Shetland Vernacular Buildings, published in 2012 by The Shetland Times Ltd. In particular the chapter “Decline of the vernacular”.

SCROLL volume 19, Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language edited by John M. Kirk and Iseabail Macleod. Published in 2013 by Rodopi. In particular the chapter “Civil Service Scots: Prose or Poetry?” by John M. Kirk.

SCROLL volume 21, Language in Scotland: Corpus-based Studies edited by Wendy Anderson. Published in 2013 by Rodopi. In particular the chapter “Civil Service Scots: Prose or Poetry?” by John M. Kirk.

Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014.

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