Yes, I know what ellipsis is, John, but I've never come across an instance like that ("Is there... who...?"). And thanks, person with strange Gaelic name, for confirming what I thought. Burns is so familiar to us in some ways that it's easy to forget how long ago he lived and wrote - only a century later than Shakespeare, who uses all manner of vocabulary and syntax that seems strange to us now Much of the language Burns used is not only Scots, which may be unfamilar to the English ear, but archaic Scots.

But I think we've got this one pretty well sorted now, for a' that.

Marje