Editing Scots language (section)

==Literature==
{{Main|Scots-language literature}}
Among the earliest Scots literature is [[John Barbour (poet)|John Barbour's]] ''Brus'' (fourteenth century), [[Wyntoun]]'s ''Cronykil'' and [[Blind Harry]]'s ''[[The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace|The Wallace]]'' (fifteenth century). From the fifteenth century, much literature based on the Royal Court in Edinburgh and the [[University of St Andrews]] was produced by writers such as [[Robert Henryson]], [[William Dunbar]], [[Gavin Douglas]] and [[David Lyndsay]]. ''[[The Complaynt of Scotland]]'' was an early printed work in Scots. The ''[[Eneados]]'' is a [[Middle Scots]] translation of [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'', completed by Gavin Douglas in 1513.

After the seventeenth century, anglicisation increased. At the time, many of the oral [[ballad]]s from the [[Border ballads|borders]] and the North East were written down. Writers of the period were [[Robert Sempill the elder|Robert Sempill]], [[Robert Sempill the younger]], [[Francis Sempill]], [[Lady Wardlaw]] and [[Lady Grizel Baillie]].

In the eighteenth century, writers such as [[Allan Ramsay (poet)|Allan Ramsay]], [[Robert Burns]], [[James Orr (poet)|James Orr]], [[Robert Fergusson]] and [[Walter Scott]] continued to use Scots – Burns's "[[Auld Lang Syne]]" is in Scots, for example. Scott introduced vernacular dialogue to his novels. Other well-known authors like [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], William Alexander, [[George MacDonald]], [[J. M. Barrie]] and other members of the [[Kailyard school]] like [[Ian Maclaren]] also wrote in Scots or used it in dialogue.

In the [[Victorian era]] popular Scottish newspapers regularly included articles and commentary in the vernacular, often of unprecedented proportions.<ref>William Donaldson, ''The Language of the People: Scots Prose from the Victorian Revival'', Aberdeen University Press 1989.</ref>

In the early twentieth century, a [[Scottish Renaissance|renaissance]] in the use of Scots occurred, its most vocal figure being [[Hugh MacDiarmid]] whose benchmark poem "[[A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle]]" (1926) did much to demonstrate the power of Scots as a modern idiom. Other contemporaries were [[Douglas Young (classicist)|Douglas Young]], [[John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir|John Buchan]], [[Sydney Goodsir Smith]], [[Robert Garioch]], [[Edith Anne Robertson]] and [[Robert McLellan]]. The revival extended to verse and other literature.

In 1955, three [[Ayrshire]] men – Sandy MacMillan, an English teacher at [[Ayr Academy]]; Thomas Limond, noted town chamberlain of [[Ayr]]; and A. L. "Ross" Taylor, rector of Cumnock Academy&nbsp;– collaborated to write {{lang|sco|Bairnsangs}} ("Child Songs"),<ref>Bairnsangs {{ISBN|978-0-907526-11-7}}</ref> a collection of children's [[nursery rhyme]]s and poems in Scots. The book contains a five-page glossary of contemporary Scots words and their pronunciations.

[[Alexander Gray (poet)|Alexander Gray]]'s translations into Scots constitute the greater part of his work, and are the main basis for his reputation.

In 1983, [[William Laughton Lorimer]]'s translation of the [[New Testament]] from the original Greek was published.

Scots is sometimes used in contemporary fiction, such as the Edinburgh dialect of Scots in ''[[Trainspotting (novel)|Trainspotting]]'' by [[Irvine Welsh]] (later made into a [[Trainspotting (film)|motion picture of the same name]]).

''[[But'n'Ben A-Go-Go]]'' by [[Matthew Fitt]] is a [[cyberpunk]] novel written entirely in what {{Lang|sco|Wir Ain Leed|italic=no}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Andy Eagle|url=http://www.scots-online.org/grammar|title=Wir Ain Leed – An introduction to Modern Scots|publisher=Scots-online.org|date=26 July 2005|access-date=15 September 2012}}</ref> ("Our Own Language") calls "General Scots". Like all cyberpunk work, it contains imaginative [[neologism]]s.

The ''[[Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]]'' was translated into Scots by [[Rab Wilson]] and published in 2004. Alexander Hutchison has translated the poetry of [[Catullus]] into Scots, and in the 1980s, [[Liz Lochhead]] produced a Scots translation of ''[[Tartuffe]]'' by [[Molière]]. [[J. K. Annand]] translated poetry and fiction from German and [[Medieval Latin]] into Scots.

The strip cartoons ''[[Oor Wullie]]'' and ''[[The Broons]]'' in the ''[[Sunday Post]]'' use some Scots. In 2018, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane'', a Scots translation of the first [[Harry Potter]] book, ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'', was published by [[Matthew Fitt]].