LL-L "Literature" 2004.10.18 (01) [E/S]

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From: Thomas <t.mcrae at uq.net.au>
Subject: LL-L "Literature" 2004.10.17 (07) [E/LS/S]

Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org> wrote
> Subject: "Etymology" [E]

> Some of these rhymes don't rhyme here that would rhyme if the Scots was
> written properly, and there are some other inconsistencies, so if you
> don't
> mind, I'll have a bash at improving it (without necessarily losing the
> wild
> west flavour!)...
>
> A man cam ridin oot the west yin wild an stormy day
> He wis tall and quiet and hungry, his een wis smoky grey
> He wis lean across the hurdies but his shoothers they wis big
> The terror of the hielan glens, that wis the Portree kid

Och Sandy Ye've dun it again ! Great wurk whair wid we be withoot Ye ?
Regards
Tom
Tom Mc Rae PSOC
Brisbane Australia
"The masonnis suld mak housis stark and rude,
To keep the pepill frome the stormes strang,
And he that fals, the craft it gois all wrang."
>>From 15th century Scots Poem 'The Buke of the Chess'

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