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Thread #64618   Message #1060255
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
24-Nov-03 - 08:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Scarborough Settler's Lament
Subject: RE: Scarborough Settler's Lament
Howsomever that may be, there are certainly some regrettable errors in the DT file. "banished Swill who view" should be "banished Swiss who views"; "Scotland" should be "Scotia" (its poetic name), and "lang syne" should not be in parentheses, as it does not refer to the well-known song, but means in this context simply "long since" or "long ago".

The Scarborough is clearly the Canadian one, not the one in Yorkshire!