ou

doubled O as in poor.

ow

OW as in bower.

u

doubled O as in poor.

ui or ü before R

(say roughly) open A as in rare.

ui or ü before any other consonant

(say roughly) close I as in grin.

y

open I as in kite.

i

pretty nearly what you please, much as in English, Heaven guide the reader through that labyrinth! But in Scots it dodges usually from the short I, as in grin, to the open E, as in mere. Find the blind, I may remark, are pronounced to rhyme with the preterite of grin.

p. 77I—THE MAKER TO POSTERITY

p. 77

Far ’yont amang the years to be When a’ we think, an’ a’ we see, An’ a’ we luve, ’s been dung ajee By time’s rouch shouther, An’ what was richt and wrang for me Lies mangled throu’ther,

Far

It’s possible—it’s hardly mair— That some ane, ripin’ after lear— Some auld professor or young heir, If still there’s either— May find an’ read me, an’ be sair Perplexed, puir brither!

p. 78“What tongue does your auld bookie speak?” He’ll spier; an’ I, his mou to steik: “No bein’ fit to write in Greek, I 

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