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- Feb 13, 2021
Happy St. Valentine's Day
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet, bard, and national icon who lived only a short 37 years. His character may not stand up to close scrutiny by some, but the works he left behind are incomparable. Maybe one of the reasons he was and is so revered is that he wrote the way the Scots spoke, whether his own work or a song he’d heard. Before the days of dictionaries, there were no hard and fast rules about spelling. People wrote what they heard and Burns was no different, despite (
- Feb 14, 2014
Happy St. Valentine's Day
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet, bard, and national icon who lived only a short 37 years. His character may not stand up to close scrutiny by some, but the works he left behind are incomparable. One of the reasons he was and is so revered is that he wrote the way the Scots spoke, whether his own work or a song he’d heard. Before the days of dictionaries, there were no hard and fast rules about spelling. People wrote what they heard and Burns was no different, despite (or in