...and now for something completely off the wall...

[Graham Samuel]

Richmond, is this Scots or just badly spelled 16th Century English? A genuine enquiry

The stait of man dois change and vary,
Now sound, now seik, now blith, now sary,
Now dansand mery, now like to dee;
Timor mortis conturbat me.

Graham

> On 28 Aug 2020, at 21:22, Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Very droll: that's a load of Frenchies having fun.
> 
> On 28.08.20 19:44, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>> If the painting is any indication of a real event, the Scots would be well advised to build their bon fires a wee bit further from the wooden ladders they are torturing their victims on. :-)
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
>>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:09 AM, Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, I suppose it is funny: about as funny as pointing out to those people in Utah who spawned this idiot that
>>> undder Scots law as a citizen of a Scottish colony whose indepndence is only de facto under Scots law he should
>>> suffer the death sentence for treason: drawing and quartering.
>>> 
>>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg
>>> 
>>> On 28.08.20 18:54, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> 😆
>>>> 
>>>>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by one American teenager who can't speak Scots
>>>>> 
>>>>> "A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smawer than a toun, wi a population rangin frae a few hunder tae a few thoosand (sometimes tens o thoosands)."
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://boingboing.net/2020/08/27/almost-every-article-on-the-sc.html
>>>>> https://www.scotslanguage.com/news/5724
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Mark Wieder
>>>>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
>>>>> 
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