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| GUEST,Elliot | Help: Britten's The Highland Balou: Highland terms (41) | RE: Help: Britten's The Highland Balou: Highland terms | 01 Nov 11 |
That's simply not true--on the southwest coast, a word like cow (typically written "coo") would be similar to the German umlauted u, but in Burns's dialect, West Central Scots, it would have the value of the English "oo" found in "food" and "soon." | |||