Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Robert Burns's Birthday

Today is the 258th birthday of the Scottish poet Robert "Rabbie" Burns.  To a Mouse and Tom o' Shanter is perhaps his most famous works, but I think that the world knows Auld Lang Syne better since we sing the song at the end of the year.

Here's a link to a website that can turn English into a Scottish accent phrase for you to try.  For one of my projects that involves train drivers, I'm thinking of having the train drivers involved in a cricket match against the "gentlemen", and one of the drivers has a Scottish accent, "Whit's cricket? Is it something tae dae wi' fitba?".  That will be fun, I'm looking forward to it.

At a writing class at Eden Court I met a man called Cliff, and he was an expert in Robert Burns.  He was quite a character.

I hope to write again soon.

Happy Birthday Robert Burns.

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