Quote Originally Posted by Lachlan09 View Post
No offence to people who speak like that. I can't imagine there's as many talk that way as there were 50 years ago.

Ahhh Big Jimmy frae Rattray !

Wow – did my Perthshire Granddad actually talk like that ? Perhaps not – as he came from Dalnaspidal, at the North of the county (not a Gaelic speaker though), but yet again my Dad has told me some of his Dad’s expressions like “foggy toddler” for a ground-crawling bumble- bee and “eyes like puggy’s ba’s” for someone with startled eyes (puggy = monkey). My Dad doesn’t talk like the poem though – he’s an Argyll man born in Tighnabruaich and raised in Clachan, Kintyre - aka God's Country.
You have to remember though that Hamish Henderson wasn't your typical squaddie -- he was a bit of a folklorist and ethnomusicologist in the same vein as Burns.

T.