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Split-Tongued Sourocks
Episode 5 of 7
A series of documentaries on the history of the Scots language written and presented by Billy Kay. (Revised repeat) Today the legacy of Burns still survives in Ayrshire - despite the 18th- and 19th-century fashion to speak (in Grassic Gibbon's phrase) like 'split-tongued sourocks'.
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Sun 18 Sep 201607:00
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Scots: A Living, Thriving Language
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