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Stower Peggy Ramsey - please translate Scots-English (30) RE: Peggy Ramsey - pls transl Scots-English 28 Jan 12


Thanks, Paul, much appreciated. The general meaning of the song was clear from the beginning, of course, but I may want to include this song in a show I'm planning, so every word in every line has to have a clear meaning. So, just to claify, any other thoughts on the meaning of ...

Wethergig (is she really going to have a square toy windmill?)

"But some calls her Midsummer" Why Midsummer?

"Peg, thee and Ise grin(d) A POKE, and we to Work will LEANES" grind a poke? Leanes to work?

"When twa sit, and eane stand" When you sit and I stand? When two sit and one stands?

"Betwixt twa rough steans Peggy not to learn" What does "not to learn" mean?

"and ye may all come lick" = like?

Any further ideas will be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Stower


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