Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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SAE, int. Ags. variant of see, look you, mark you, used in unstressed position and phs. formally confused with Sae, adv. (Ags. 1969). See P.L.D. § 88. [se]Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) 47, 54:
There he is sae! . . . You see the crood o' men, sae.
