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Thread #3049 Message #2420385
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
22-Aug-08 - 07:39 PM
Thread Name: Eppie Morie: What does it all mean?
Subject: RE: Eppie Morie: What does it all mean?
My comment on the hand/horn question was based not on listening to MacColl's singing, but on MacColl's own transcription of the words: his understanding then, rather than mine.
As for 'spey', Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary (also issued as Chambers' Scots Dictionary) has 'speysame asspae' and 'spaen the opening or slit in a gown, petticoat, etc.'