The first decade of the new Scottish Parliament has seen the emergence of a new-found national confidence. 'Scottishness' is clearly alive and flourishing. This
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Northern English has been the object of much attention linguistically over the last thirty years but scholars have had a tendency to focus on the phonology of t
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