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The Scots Tongue

Episode 5: Split-Tongued Sourocks

Duration: 28 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio OrkneyLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio Scotland Highlands and Islands

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'. Show less

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