‘You Ø na hear o’ that kind o’ things’: Negative do in buckie scots

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Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 231-259

  Smith, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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