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My favorite one has an imposing title: “Chambers Scots Dictionary: serving as a glossary for Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Galt, minor poets, Kailyard novelists, and a host of other writers of the Scottish tongue,” compiled by Alexander Warrack.

Her stories were often disparagingly dubbed "Kailyard fiction", a reference to the parochialism and sentimentality of the writing.

Fareweel my auld kailyard, ilk bush an' ilk tree!

But in the small hours of the morning, just as the clock was striking two, she heard a stealthy trampling in the field behind, as if some very heavy person were trying to tread very softly, and presently a mighty Giant stepped right over the wall into the kailyard.

Time went on, and in the kailyard at home the cabbages were disappearing as fast as ever.