The following was posted on another list. Very handy to have as a reference for those odd words that keep popping up from time to time. Cheers Bill "The three year project, led by English lecturer Victor Skretkowicz and lexicographer Susan Rennie at the University of Dundee has seen all 12 volumes of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and all 10 of the Scottish National Dictionary transferred to the web to make the first online Dictionary of the Scots Language. For nearly a century, successive editors of the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue and The Scottish National Dictionary laboured to create a historical and cultural record of Scots, from 1200 to 1976. The twenty two volumes contain hundreds of thousands of quotes describing all walks of life but now through a process of 'virtual integration' the Dictionary of the Scots Language brings their linguistic, historical and cultural records together and facilitates rapid searching of their contents. It can be accessed for free at www.dsl.ac.uk <http://www.dsl.ac.uk>