LL-L: "Online resources" LOWLANDS-L, 26.NOV.2000 (03) [E]

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

[The following is in Scots and in English]

P. Hay Hunter's 1894 novel "James Inwick" is up on ScotsteXt
nou. The eponymous hero is a Scottish plooman that's made
elder o the kirk an afore lang finnds hissel in ower his heid
in the politics o antidisestaiblishmentarianism. It's a gey
weel-written bit wark in richt guid Scots bi a accomplished
novelist - he wrate "The Silver Bullet" an "Sons of the Croft"
amang ither warks. A'v taen oot aa the apostrophes fae the
maist common wirds, aither replacin them wi a gaist "e" or
naething ava, but apairt fae that the spellins is aa as Hunter
wrate them. Some o his spellins leuks kin o like ma ain (eg
"chainge" for "change"), but they'r no!

P. Hay Hunter's 1894 novel "James Inwick" is now available on
ScotsteXt. The eponymous hero is a Scottish ploughman who is
appointed elder of the church and soon finds himself up to
his neck in the politics of antidisestablishmentarianism.
It's very well-written in excellent Scots by an accomplished
novelist - he also wrote, for example, "The Silver Bullet"
and "Sons of the Croft". I've removed the apostrophes from
the most common words, replacing them either with a silent "e"
or nothing at all, but otherwise the spellings are all as used
by Hunter. Some of his spellings look suspiciously like my own
(eg "chainge" for "change"), but they're not!

http://scotstext.org -> "Novels" -> "James Inwick".

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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