by MacDuff » 27 Jun 2010, 07:47
Odd bit of history D and E. Yes you are correct about Sunset Song and Lewis Grassic Gibbon. But did you ever think of the odd bit of history in that the Burns family left Kincardine and went south and then over a century later, the Gibbons arrived from Aberdeenshire. They previously farmed Midhill of Seggat at Auchterless. They left and my great grandfather "took" the farm. He must have been a tough old bird, because at the age of 76, he was stamped on by a Clydesdale, and the local Doctor thought it wise to amputate his foot - without an anasthetic - on the kitchen table at Midhill of Seggat, rather than trying to send him all the way to Aberdeen for surgery. He lived another four years! Also, if you check, you will find that Doric is the only British dialect recognized by the Oxford English dictionary. which says something like "dialect, north-east of Scotland".Now there is a problem tae pit on the English achette.