Anglicisation Quotes

“The chief Literary Lights which modern Scotland claims to light up the scene of her night are in reality no more than the commendable writers of the interesting English county of Scotshire.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Scottish Scene: or, The Intelligent Man's Guide to Albyn

“Douglas, unlike Ramsay's Scots-language The Gentle Shepherd, is written in English: it participates linguistically in the mid-eighteenth-century anglicisation project within an elite post-Union Hanoverian settlement.”
― Ian Brown, The Oxford Handbook of Scottish Theatre