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A phonological description of Brora, Golspie, and Embo GaelicBook 1984 • Dorian, Nancy C.
Highland Scots • Europe > British Isles
This dissertation is a description of the phonology and morphophonology of a Gaelic dialect. Dorian includes substantial information on dialect mixture in Gaelic and individual variation....A substitute name system in the Scottish highlandsarticle 1970 • Dorian, Nancy C.
Highland Scots • Europe > British Isles
This article examines the incidence and cultural use of 'by-names' among Gaelic speakers in East Sutherland. Since there are a limited number of surnames in the communities studied, the use of 'by-names' has arisen in order to permit greater specific...Gaelic proverbial lore in Embo villagearticle 1974 • Dorian, Nancy C.
Highland Scots • Europe > British Isles
Gaelic as a language is rapidly disappearing from the Scottish highlands, and given the relative poverty of the Gaelic folk culture as a whole, Dorian has attempted to capture as much of it as possible in the forms of proverbs. Dorian's focus is the ...