disputation is smoke. It is to no profit!--And I do like," he says, "to
give and to get the good of things!"

THE END.

Note from John Bechard, creator of this Electronic text.

The following is a list of Scottish words which are found in George
MacDonald's "Donal Grant". I have compiled this list myself and worked
out the definitions from context with the help of Margaret West, from
Leven in Fife, Scotland, and also by referring to a word list found in
a collection of poems by Robert Burns, "Chamber's Scots Dialect
Dictionary from the 17th century to the Present" c. 1911 and
"Scots-English English-Scots Dictionary" Lomond Books c. 1998. I have
tried to be as thorough as possible given the limited resources and
welcome any feedback on this list which may be wrong (my e-mail address
is JaBBechard@aol.com). This was never meant to be a comprehensive
list of the National Scottish Language, but rather an aid to
understanding some of the conversations and references in this text in
the Broad Scots. I do apologise for any mistakes or omissions. I
aimed for my list to be very comprehensive, and it often repeats the
same word in a plural or diminutive form. As well, it includes words
that are quite obvious to native English speakers, only spelled in such
a way to demonstrate the regional pronunciation.

This list is a compressed form that consists of three columns for
'word', 'definition', and 'additional notes'. It is set up with a
comma between each item and a hard return at the end of each
definition. This means that this section could easily be cut and
pasted into its own text file and imported into a database or
spreadsheet as a comma separated variable file (.csv file). Failing
that, you could do a search and replace for commas in this section (I
have not used any commas in my words, definitions or notes) and replace
the commas with spaces or tabs.

Word, Definition, Notes
a', all; every, also have
'a', have,
a' body, everyone; everybody,
a' place, all places; everywhere,
a' thing, everything; anything,
a'body, everyone; everybody,
aboon, above; up; over,
aboot, about,
abro'd, abroad,
abune, above; up; over,
ac', act,
accep', accept,
accoont, account,
accoontable, accountable,
accoonts, accounts,
ae, one,
ae-sidit, one-sided,
aff, off; away; past; beyond,
affrontit, affronted; disgraced, also ashamed; shamed
afore, before; in front of,
'af