This Scots form of hotel is recorded in the Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) through a number of 19th-century examples. Sir Walter Scott wrote in St Ronan’s Well (1824): “They maun hae a ...

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AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...