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Split-Tongued Sourocks

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Burns's legacy survives in Ayrshire, despite 18th- and 19th-century fashions of speach.

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language, presented by Billy Kay. The legacy of Burns survives in Ayrshire, despite 18th- and 19th-century fashions of speach.

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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Series exploring the history of the Scottish language, written and presented by Billy Kay.

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