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mrsam wrote:
Lucky Poet wrote:Very nice, and unusual to see non-industrial brick faced buildings in Scotland around that time, I'd have thought?
And I love this:mrsam wrote:
I don't get the first two letters, but changing the spelling around it seems to say, "[though?] thocht is free, haud weel yer tongue I advise thee." How odd
HollowHorn wrote:I liked the spunking cock.
mrsam wrote:
Josef wrote:Interesting spelling of 'tailor'.
Lucky Poet wrote:I'm rather fond of 'foundit', bearing in mind 'ou'='oo' in old Scots orthography. Hous = hoose, in other words. 'Taillyour' is a cracker too. It rings a distant bell that the use of 4 for King Jamie's number marks the tail end of the use of Arabic numerals, later Monarchs (especially after 1603) having adopted the Latin after the Continental fashion. I may well be talking shite though.
(I've been dying to use 'orthography' for ages, and I leave satisfied.)
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