Scots Words and Place-names (SWAP) aimed to engage the Scottish public in talking about the Scots words that they use and hear around them. The project sought any examples of words, their meanings, how they were used and where they were used. The project also sought to uncover the names of places which use Scots words: how they were pronounced; if people knew what they meant; whether they appeared on maps or were known through word-of-mouth; even how they looked (through uploading pictures).

The results of the SWAP project were added to the word collections of Scottish Language Dictionaries and helped to form new dictionaries of the Scots language. They also contributed to knowledge of Scots place-names. The information gathered on place-names was used to populate a glossary and to supplement the dictionary-based research which was used to create it.

http://swap.nesc.gla.ac.uk/