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David Purves

Born

in Selkirk, Scotland

April 09, 1924

Died

January 03, 2015

Genre

Poetry In Scots, Science, Drama

Influences

J.K. Annand, Sydney Goodsir Smith, William Soutar, Hugh MacDiarmid, Ro ...more

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David Purves was a Scottish biochemist, playwright and poet, and a champion of the Scots language.

He joined the staff of the East of Scotland College of Agriculture in 1956, where he worked with the agricultural advisory service on problems associated with trace-element deficiencies and toxicities, and published a series of research papers on these problems over the period 1966 to 1986. This work was distilled in a scientific monograph entitled Trace-Element Contamination of the Environment, published by Elsevier in 1977 (with a revised edition in 1985). The book highlighted the implications for society and the biosphere of allowing metals to be dispersed beyond recovery, as environmental contaminants.

He was committed to the cause of the Sc ...more

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	A Scots Grammar: Scots Grammar and Usage really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lallans Nummer 41: Mairtinmas 1993 by David Purves (Editor), Gavin Sprott (Contributor), Kahlil Gibran (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mak it New: An Anthology of Twenty-One Years of Writing in Lallans by David Purves (Editor), Neil R. MacCallum (Editor), Lilian Anderson (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Puddok an the Princess: A Comedy in Three Acts 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trace-Element Contamination of the Environment 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thrawart Threipins 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1976 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hert's Bluid 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lallans Nummer 29: Mairtinmas 1987 by David Purves (Editor), M.E. Alexander (Contributor), Sheena Blackhall (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lallans Nummer 30: Whitsuntid 1988 by David Purves (Editor), Peter Cameron (Contributor), Ken Morrice (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lallans Nummer 31: Mairtinmas 1988 by David Purves (Editor), T.S. Law (Contributor), G.F. Dutton (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What we have at present in Scotland is a linguistic continuum between Scots-English - the cumulative result of the attempts of several generations of Scots to speak English - and what is left of our own language, now largely confined to those who have not been deracinated by the influwnce of educational policy. Nevertheless, the Scots language still survives, incipient and fragmented, in the speech of the people and in a substantial body of recorded literature, although what is left of spoken Scots is coming under increasing pressure from English as a result of the influence of British radio and television. The problem for those who are interested in the survival and further evolution of Scots, is not how best to doctor it so that is can masquerade as English, but how to distinguish it clearly from English in writing, as a language which has a character and rules of its own.”
― David Purves, Thrawart Threipins

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