PUBLICATIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 71, 29 July 1929, Page 4

PUBLICATIONS

THE N.Z. SCOTSMAN. The* special articles in, the July issue of the “N.Z. Scotsman” are “Lady NainiQ and Her Songs” and “Auld Dunedin’s Historic Day”, the latter dealing with the unveiling of Wallace and Bruce statues at Edinburgh , making the 600th anniversary of the. granting of Edinburgh’s oldest existing character by Bruce. The leading article deals in interesting manner with the scheme of the Scots National Dictionary Association for the production of a Scots, dictionary. “It is a common error,” says the article, “oven amongst Scots themselves, to regard the old native tongue as a> mere dialect of standard English. In actual fact, Scots is no more closely /iHied; to English than Dutch to Flemish, Danish to Sweden or Portuguese to Spanish. The two languages, that is to say, sire derived from the same source, hut have been moulded by diverse influences, geographical and political.”