Acknowledgements

Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

Classroom: Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay

Hands image: Image by Myriam Zilles from Pixabay

Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, by Luath Press, is used with the kind courtesy of Gerda Stevenson

Anti Littering sign: © Copyright Walter Baxter https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/808270. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Chalkboard: Siyah Kedi Photography - https://www.flickr.com/photos/83073875@N00/34902600916 This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial-Share Alike Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

Sewing Machine: ezthaiphoto/123RF

Sign Post: © Nick Scott plaques/sign photos/Alamy.

Auld Scotts Words Diane Andersonct

David Hume: National Galleries of Scotland. Photography by Antonia Reeve.

Extract A brief history of Scots and its Anglicisation: Scots Language Centre

Extract ‘Scottish Twitter…’: Taken from https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/scottish-twitter-visitor-centre-coming-16749606

Extract ‘wis walkin home…’: @marcsimps0n. Tweeted 28 September 2017. Quoted here: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/edinburgh-festival/scottish-twitter-reveals-winner-funniest-tweet-launch-fringe-visitor-centre-542380

Extract ‘Keepin’ da Shetlan’ dialect alive…’: Wir Midder Tongue. Found on Facebook 2018, https://www.facebook.com/groups/WirMidderTongue/

Screenshot: twitter.com/drmdempster?lang=en. Courtesy of Michael Dempster