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<p>(river valley).</p>

<p><big> Orthography </big></p>
<p>The language first appeared in written form in the mid-14th century, when its written form differed little from that of northern English dialects, and so Scots shared many Northumbrian borrowings from <a href="page.php?w=Old_Norse">Old Norse</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Anglo-Norman_language">Anglo-Norman</a> French. The reduced set of verb agreement endings in particular give the language an uncannily modern appearance when compared to the writing of English contemporaries such as <a href="page.php?w=Geoffrey_Chaucer">Geoffrey Chaucer</a>.Some</p><p>
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