The Scots Tongue. Episode 5. (30 minutes). Split - Tongue Sourocks. #thescotstongue

Episode five from a series of seven on the history of 'The Scots Tongue'. The language over the years, presented by Billy Kay, a well know Scots presenter on BBC Radio Scotland. Today the legacy of Burns still survives in Ayrshire - despite the 18th- and 19th-century fashion to speak (in Grassic Gibbon's phrase) like 'split-tongued sourocks'.

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