LL-L: "Pronunciation" LOWLANDS-L, 07.MAR.2001 (03) [E]

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From: Andy Eagle [Andy.Eagle at t-online.de]
Subject: LL-L: "Pronunciation"  [E]

Stefan Israel wrote:

> Andy Eagle wrote:

> > Fae: TO THE WEAVER'S GIN YOU GO
> >
> > "A bonie westlin weaver lad ------- He caught my heart, as in
> > a net, wi every KNOW and thrum"
>
> I had always thought it was "every KNOCK and thrum", but when I
> checked the text, I found "In every KNOT and thrum" (that was on
> http://www.robertburns.org/works/206.html).  Does someone have a
> reliable source for which word Burns wrote?

I quoted what I was sent. I'll ask if that was a typo or whether the version
quoted has KNOW.

My Burns edition gives 'knot'.
The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. With Notes and Glossary by Robert Ford.
Collins' Clear-Type Press. London and Glasgow. No idea when it was
published.

Andy Eagle

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