This form for the past participle of the verb to prove is said to be a Scotticism. |
I am sensible I myself have since that time acquired Scotch in perfection, and many a Scotticism withal. |
The following had an indescribable piquancy, which arose from the Scotticism of the terms and the manners. |
The thing they most dreaded was to be convicted of a Scotticism. |
That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. |