A 1987 performance of Burns’s love  song by the Corries, a Scottish folk band.

As I mentioned in class, Scots is a distinct language (or dialect, depending on your definition and politics) with vocabulary, pronunciations, and grammatical constructions that are different from English. This dictionary is pretty comprehensive:

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/

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