Annual Burns Chronicle and Club DirectoryBurns Federation, 1950 |
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... dialect relationship . If you are sensitive and do not like to say that Scots is a dialect of English , then by all means you may look upon English as a dialect of Scots ; but in that case you must add that the English dialect of Scots ...
... dialect relationship . If you are sensitive and do not like to say that Scots is a dialect of English , then by all means you may look upon English as a dialect of Scots ; but in that case you must add that the English dialect of Scots ...
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... dialect is primarily spoken and heard , any form of literature that ought not to be read in silence may properly be expressed in dialect . Songs never should be read : they should be sung . Poetry should be " soughed " -audibly but no ...
... dialect is primarily spoken and heard , any form of literature that ought not to be read in silence may properly be expressed in dialect . Songs never should be read : they should be sung . Poetry should be " soughed " -audibly but no ...
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... dialect in treating of simple things . The most astonishing thing about good dialect poetry is the amazing dignity and rightness of phrases which transmuted word for word into English would be completely banal . Nor let it be said that ...
... dialect in treating of simple things . The most astonishing thing about good dialect poetry is the amazing dignity and rightness of phrases which transmuted word for word into English would be completely banal . Nor let it be said that ...
Contents
Editorial I | |
A Plea For The KailYaird | 9 |
Folk Poetry and Robert Burns | 21 |
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