Re: [scots-l] auld sang line

[David Kilpatrick]

on 16/12/2000 7:41 pm, Ted Hastings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>> Here it is, friends, in its entirety, as transcribed (carefully, with
>> proofreading by a loving husband) from Burn's letter of
> September 1793 to
>> George Thomson:
> 
>> Auld lang syne -----
> 
> Maybe you should have asked him to proofread your email as well. The name is
> "Burns" without the apostrophe! ;<)
> 
And that was his own affected spelling of his real family name, Burness.

David

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