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Kate Mawby's avatar

I ‘did’ Tam o Shanter for O level in England many years ago….loved it, and agree as you say, no harder than Chaucer and Shakespeare who also read and enjoy!

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Paula Harmon's avatar

Love my books of Burns poems I bought as a little girl from the Burns museum in Ayrshire. Although my Scots relations spoke standard English (with a smattering of Scots words to convey a meaning better), they could all explain the poems, and my English father encouraged a fascination with language anyway. My favourite is still ‘To a Louse’ though ‘Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie’ is a perfect line of description.

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