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Published in 1969, his Six Glasgow Poems has been called 'epoch-making'. [1] The poems were first published as an insert in Glasgow University Magazine. [9]In 1984, he released Intimate Voices, a selection of his work from 1965 onwards including poems and essays on William Carlos Williams and "the nature of hierarchical diction in Britain."
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [ 3 ]
Picture from a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript of the Roman de Fergus. The Kingdom of Alba was overwhelmingly an oral society dominated by Gaelic culture. Our fuller sources for Ireland of the same period suggest that there would have been filidh, who acted as poets, musicians and historians, often attached to the court of a lord or king, and passed on their knowledge and culture in ...
SCOTS is a multimedia corpus, containing written texts and spoken texts, available as orthographic transcriptions, accompanied by source audio or video files.SCOTS includes a large number of genres and text types, including prose fiction, poetry, business and personal correspondence, religious texts, parliamentary and administrative documents, emails, conversations and interviews.
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His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and "Scots Wha Hae" served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. [41] Burns's poetry drew upon a substantial familiarity with and knowledge of Classical, Biblical, and English literature, as well as the Scottish Makar tradition ...
Glaswegian is the associated adjective and demonym of Glasgow, a city of the Scottish Lowlands in Scotland. It may refer to: Anything from or related to the city of Glasgow, in particular: The people of Glasgow (see also List of people from Glasgow) The Glasgow dialect of English and Scots
Bud Neill's legacy: Lobey Dosser and Rank Bajin, astride Elfie, the only two legged horse in The West. William "Bud" Neill (5 November 1911–28 August 1970 [1]) was a Scottish cartoonist who drew cartoon strips for a number of Glasgow-based newspapers between the 1940s and 1960s.