The following abbreviations are used throughout for standard editions and reference works:
CSD: Concise Scots Dictionary, ed. Mairi Robinson (Edinburgh: Polygon at Edinburgh, 1999).
DSL: Dictionary of the Scots Language / Dictionar o the Scots Leid, available at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/ [DSL-DOST: Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue entries; DSL-SND: Scottish National Dictionary entries].
EDD: The English Dialect Dictionary, ed. Joseph Wright, 6 vols (London: Henry Frowde, 1898–1905).
ESPB: Francis James Child, ed., The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 5 vols (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1882–98).
ESTC: English Short Title Catalogue, available at http://estc.bl.uk
OED: Oxford English Dictionary, available at http://www.oed.com
Child numbers: refer to items in ESPB.
Roud numbers: refer to items in the Roud Folk Song Index and Broadside Index, available at http://vwml.org.uk/search/search-
roud-indexes
Bodleian Library broadside ballads are available at http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
All web addresses cited, and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in the Select Bibliography, were accessed prior to publication on 12/13 February 2014 and were valid at that date.