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Iseabail Macleod

Iseabail C. Macleod MBE (27 May 1936 – 15 February 2018) was a Scottish lexicographer.

Iseabail Macleod
MBE
Born27 May 1936
Dalmuir
Died15 February 2018
Edinburgh
Occupation(s)Lexicographer, editor

Early life

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Iseabail C. Macleod was born in Dalmuir, in West Dunbartonshire. Her parents were native Gaelic speakers.[1] Her father was a policeman. In childhood, she was evacuated with her mother and younger brother Iain to Achiltibuie in the Scottish Highlands, for safety during World War II. She completed a master's degree in languages at the University of Glasgow in 1957.[2]

Career

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Iseabail Macleod taught languages in schools in Austria and Scotland as a young woman, but soon moved into editorial work. She began working on dictionaries during a job at reference publisher William Collins and Sons in Glasgow, and moved to Edinburgh in 1975, as editor at another reference publisher, W & R Chambers, and then became a freelance editor.[2]

She was Editorial Director of the Scottish National Dictionary Association from 1986 to 2002.[2][3] In that role, she oversaw the technological transitions that brought the Scots School Dictionary onto CD-ROM, for classroom use. "There are many things which you can say in Scots which are much more difficult to express in English," she explained of the dictionary's value for young learners.[4]

In the 2001 New Year Honours, she was named a member of the Order of the British Empire for her work on Scots dictionaries.[5] She was also an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.[6]

Personal life

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Macleod was an active skier, walker and hiker until her last years.[1] She died 15 February 2018, in Edinburgh, aged 81 years, after a stroke.[7]

Publications

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  • Concise English-Scots Dictionary (1985)
  • Pocket Guide to Scottish Words (1986)[8]
  • The Scots Thesaurus (1990)[9]
  • The Pocket Guide to Scottish Words (1991)[10]
  • The Wordsworth Dictionary of First Names (1995)[11]
  • Scotland : a linguistic double helix (1995)[12]
  • Edinburgh Pocket Guide (1996)[13]
  • The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Scotland (2004)[14]
  • The Pocket Scots Dictionary
  • The Pocket Guide to Scottish Place-names (2010)[15]
  • Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries (2012)[16]
  • Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language (2013)[17][18]
  • Scoor-oot: A Dictionary of Scots Words and Phrases in Current Use (2015)[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b Ross, Helen (December 2018). "Iseabail Macleod MBE" (PDF). Scottish Ski Club Journal.
  2. ^ a b c Mackay, Margaret (Spring 2018). "Iseabail Macleod MBE 1936-2018". Scottish Language Dictionaries. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Iseabail C. Macleod". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  4. ^ "Off tae cyberspace". The Guardian. 2 September 1997. p. 52. Retrieved 25 July 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "MBEs M - R". BBC News. 30 December 2000. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (editors) :: Authors :: Birlinn Ltd". www.birlinn.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Iseabail Macleod". The Herald. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
  8. ^ Pocket guide to Scottish words. Macleod, Iseabail. Glasgow. 1986. ISBN 0-86267-160-4. OCLC 13334383.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ Macleod, Iseabail (1990). The Scots Thesaurus. Aberdeen University Press. ISBN 978-0-08-036583-1.
  10. ^ Macleod, Iseabail (1991). Pocket guide to Scottish words. Chambers. ISBN 978-0-550-11834-9.
  11. ^ MacLeod, Iseabail C. (1995). The Wordsworth dictionary of first names. Freedman, Terry. Ware: Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1-85326-366-4. OCLC 60273434.
  12. ^ Macleod, Iseabail. (1995). Scotland : a linguistic double helix. MacNeacail, Aonghas. [Brussels]. ISBN 90-74851-18-5. OCLC 45050699.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ MacLeod, Iseabail (1996). Edinburgh Pocket Guide. Colin Baxter. ISBN 978-1-900455-01-5.
  14. ^ The illustrated encyclopedia of Scotland. Macleod, Iseabail. Edinburgh: Lomond. 2004. ISBN 1-84204-028-6. OCLC 56645438.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. ^ Grant, Alison; Macleod, Iseabail (25 March 2010). The Pocket Guide to Scottish Place-Names. Scaramouche. ISBN 978-1-899471-00-3.
  16. ^ Scotland in definition : a history of Scottish dictionaries. Macleod, Iseabail., McClure, J. Derrick. Edinburgh: John Donald. 2012. ISBN 978-1-906566-49-4. OCLC 773430813.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  17. ^ Kirk, John M.; Iseabail |Macleod (1 October 2013). Scots: Studies in its Literature and Language. Rodopi. ISBN 978-94-012-0990-8.
  18. ^ Scott, Paul Henderson (10 August 2012). "Word Power". Scottish Review of Books. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  19. ^ Stevenson, James A. C.; Macleod, Iseabail (17 December 2015). Scoor-oot : a dictionary of Scots words and phrases in current use. London. ISBN 978-1-4742-4720-7. OCLC 927168835.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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