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Did Robert Burns grow up speaking Doric? | Press and Journal

Updated: January 23, 2021, 8:31 pm © EVENING EXPRESS Sunrise over the Robert Burns statue at Union Terrace in Aberdeen. Sign up for our newsletter and let our nostalgia team take you on a trip back in time Thank you for signing up to our Nostalgia newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Robert Burns’ words are known and loved the world over… but did Rabbie speak with a Doric accent? The idea our Bard might have used the north-east tongue of his Mearns-born father certainly caught the imagination of early experts delving into Burns’ roots. Writing in the Aberdeen Weekly Journal in January 1915, James Crabb Watt KC, author of a History of the Mearns, described Burns’ father, William, as a man of culture and intelligence, although a “horny-handed son of toil”.

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