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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at scotstext.org]
Subject: "Resources"

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Resources
>
> To those of you who do not already know and are curious enough to find out
> what typically happens during this celebration, what kind of a creature a
> "haggis" is and how it is hunted, prepared and consumed on Burns
> Night and any
> other night or day, I recommend the following pages:
>
> *  The Format for a Burns Supper
>    http://www.rabbie-burns.com/burnssupper/

Nicely-styled site - I'm somewhat horrified (actually I can
express it better in Scots - "scunnert") by the form of the
Selkirk Grace given on the site. I don't know where it comes
from but in my Burns book it's exactly like this:

Some hae meat, an canna eat,
    An some wad eat that want it,
But we hae meat an we can eat,
    An sae the Lord be thankit.

Without interfering with Burns's grammar one way or the other,
this can be comfortably recited in Scots like this:

sVm he: mi? @n 'ka:n@ i?
@n sVm wad i? D@? wQ:n? I?
b@? wi: he: mi? @n wi: k at n i?
@n se: D@ lo:rd bi 'Ta:NkI?

As always, you can pronounce the glottal stops as /t/ if you'd
rather. The length of the word "we" is due to emphasis.

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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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

I wrote:

> Finally, please find below Burns' "Address To A Haggis" (with a brief > glossary
> by yours truly, corrections welcome), an "address" without the reciting of
> which a Burns Supper would be incomplete.

Below please find a somewhat amended and extended glossary.  If it does not
suffice, I suggest you use our own Andy Eagle's online dictionary.  You can
access it via his or Sandy Fleming's site:

Andy's:
http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/
(Click on "Dictionary" on the very bottom.)

Sandy's:
http://scotstext.org/
(Click on the book icon in the "tool" box on the top.)

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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GLOSSARY:

a': all
aboon: above
auld: old
belyve: by and by
Bethankit: "Be thanked" (said during after-dinner grace)
deil: devil
dight: wipe
fair fa' (greeting, something like "Welcome!" or "Hail!")
guid: good
Guidman: Master
horn: spoon (made from horn)
hurdie: loin
jaup: slosh, splash, bespatter
kyte: belly
luggie: wooden dish, bowl
maist: most
nae: no
nieve: fist
nit: nut
ony: any
owre: over, excessive
painch: paunch, stomach
reek: smoke
rive: tear
sconner: disgust
sic: such
skinking: watery
sned: lop off, sever
sonsie: plump
staw: sicken
tak: take
tap: top
thairm: gut, intestine (cf. German _Darm_, Low Saxon/Dutch _darm_)
wad: would
walie: choice, ample, large
weel: well
weel-swall'd: well-rounded, quite swollen
wordy: worthy

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