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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 14 August 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
========================================================================</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: Resources</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lesley kindly drew our attention to a new online Scots language resource via a BBC announcement:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">** Scots 'mither tongue' goes online **<br>
An archive of the Scots language becomes available all over the world thanks to a comprehensive new website.<br><<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6943088.stm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6943088.stm</a> ><br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The direct link: <a href="http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/">http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It's the Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
I've checked it out a bit. Oh, boy! This looks like a really nice one. It looks as though we are amassing a nice bit of online Scots material together with our Sandy's literature site (</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.scotstext.org/">
www.scotstext.org/</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">) and a couple of dictionaries, including our Andy's (</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.scots-online.org/dictionary/">
www.scots-online.org/dictionary/</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">), and Andy's other pages (</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.scots-online.org/">www.scots-online.org/</a>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">).</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It's been helping me greatly, because it allows me to read various sorts of Scots texts and thereby gradually acquire at least a passive repository of words and expressions. I recommend it. The other day I thought I had passed a milestone when only at third reading I realized that from an (American)
</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">English </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">point of view the following popular song (found at Sandy's site: </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.scotstext.org/makars/traditional_songs/volume_1.asp#cockupyourbeaver">
www.scotstext.org/makars/traditional_songs/volume_1.asp#cockupyourbeaver</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">) is likely to raise a few eyebrows.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">When first my dear Johny cam to this toun,<br>He haed a blue bunnet, it wanted the croun;<br>But nou he haes gotten a hat an a feather,<br>Hey, my Johny lad, cock up your beaver.
<br>Cock up your beaver, cock up your beaver,<br>Hey, my Johny lad, cock up your beaver;<br>Cock up your beaver, an cock it na wrang,<br>We'll a' to England or it be lang.<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I wish we had something comparable to sites of that caliber for other non-dominant Lowlands languages.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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