LL-L: "Pronunciation" LOWLANDS-L, 08.MAR.2001 (04) [E/S]

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From: Sandy Fleemin [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Pronunciation"

> From: Andy Eagle [Andy.Eagle at t-online.de]
> Subject: LL-L: "Pronunciation"  [E]
>
> I wrote:
>
> > I quoted what I was sent. I'll ask if that was a typo or whether the
> version
> > quoted has KNOW.
>
> Seems there are various versions of this in circulation
>
> "The texts to the songs are given in the booklet accompanying a CD.  It is
> Honest CD #5047, volume 1 of the complete songs, produced in association
> with The Burns Federation and recorded in 1995."

> "A bonie westlin weaver lad ------- He caught my heart, as in
> a net, wi every KNOW and thrum"

Andy,

Shuirly this is "knot an thrum" - a net's made o knots an
thrums, that's aa it can be.

A wad say as like as no that this is a ill transcrip o [no?]
bi thame as isna familiar wi the closed "o" an the glottal
stop in Scots.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org
A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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