> There are parts of the song which point to construction by somone
> whose natural word-order and vocabulary are English rather than Scots.
There is a book devoted to this: translations of Burns into Scots...
i.e. reverse-engineering what he might have written if he hadn't been
looking over his shoulder at an Anglophone or Anglified audience.
A friend of mine had a review copy of it about a year ago and that's
the only one I've seen. The author's reconstructed phrases were
printed in green to distinguish them from the unchanged text. Anyone
know what this was?
I didn't look at it in detail, but my initial response of "you have
got to be kidding" gradually gave way to "hmm, he might just have a
point there". Some of these reconstructions seemed more singable.
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