The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #111732   Message #2357658
Posted By: glueman
04-Jun-08 - 06:56 PM
Thread Name: Accents in Folk Music
Subject: RE: Accents in Folk Music
A minefield. It's impossible to imagine singing 'the wee lass on the the brae' without a hint of Scots inflection. Substituting the words for standard English would just be surreal. That way lies madness.