Dictionary of the Scots Language Dictionary of the Scots Language Access information: Freely available from DSL. Description: Comprises the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the Scottish National Dictionary (SND). Coverage: DOST contains information about Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries and SND contains information about Scots words in use from 1700 to the 1970s. There is a 2005 supplement. This article was published on 2024-08-21