LL-L "Help needed" 2004.03.08 (04) [E/S]

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From: Brian Holton <ctbah at polyu.edu.hk>
Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2004.03.08 (01) [E]

thanks for all your help.
I think there might be a wee problem here, as the 17thC was when Scots began
to write in English - the example of Laud's prayer book is good one. Still
an on, it wadna be richt ti say at written Scots wis deid, for it wisna:
formal prose an court poetry mebbes went inti English  first, but the'r a
guid whein o things - letters, diaries, Burgh Court Books an siclike texts -
at steys in Scots weill up ti the back -en o the 1600s.

But the request comes from a theatre company in Glasgow, so presumably they
want something with a Scots flavour - I'll send the modern spelling.

aye

brian

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